tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163916.post116768943641816684..comments2023-12-03T03:43:26.162-05:00Comments on Out of the Woodwork: Other forms of tissue paper...Brian Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17182888011015400963noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163916.post-1168127843150699762007-01-06T18:57:00.000-05:002007-01-06T18:57:00.000-05:00Indeed, they are.Indeed, they are.Brian Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17182888011015400963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163916.post-1168119402022903172007-01-06T16:36:00.000-05:002007-01-06T16:36:00.000-05:00The tag quote from the interview with Claudia Emer...The tag quote from the interview with Claudia Emerson on Poetry Daily's "News" page right now starts like this:<BR/><BR/>Instead of 'accessibility,' we might also aspire for 'clarity' and then strive for, instead of 'difficulty,' 'complexity.'<BR/><BR/>Those are much better words! :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163916.post-1167972259432997442007-01-04T23:44:00.000-05:002007-01-04T23:44:00.000-05:00Poor canine heart, only getting tidbits. Seems to...Poor canine heart, only getting tidbits. Seems to me it should be fed whole poets. <BR/><BR/>Personally I find the terms Josh comes up with so ugly I wouldn't want to write either "absorptive" or "non-absorptive" poetry. Imagine getting out of bed and saying, "I think I'm going to write some absorptive poetry today!"Brian Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17182888011015400963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163916.post-1167948351854346702007-01-04T17:05:00.000-05:002007-01-04T17:05:00.000-05:00Here's a much better version of the same comment, ...Here's a much better version of the same comment, from a poem I just read by Jane Hirshfield called "Poe: An Assay": "His stories were not intended for the canine heart that howls inside us, / though he fed it the tidbits it needed to stay near."<BR/><BR/>Too many defenses of "non-absorptive poetry" forget about the "tidbits" needed to feed "the canine heart," and I love Celan and enjoy Hill because both of them are very conscious of the presence of that heart.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8163916.post-1167923381960087142007-01-04T10:09:00.000-05:002007-01-04T10:09:00.000-05:00This nicely draws out the occasional rude underton...This nicely draws out the occasional rude undertones of those who call for "difficult" poetry of various kinds. <BR/><BR/>One reason that I am often offended by such arguments is that they condescend to me, as if my current taste for poets like Frost or Wilbur discredits me.<BR/><BR/>I often want to say: "Hey, I like Geoffrey Hill and Paul Celan, too; aren't they difficult? And I have translated some quite 'non-absorptive' German poets, so I know what I am talking about when I discuss such approaches."<BR/><BR/>But there's no point; my taste for Frost and Wilbur makes me appear absurd in the condescenders' eye,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com