Anyway, here’s my latest one or two efforts. I’ve alluded to these in those extra-bloogular exchanges and in recent phone calls with Mom, but these are otherwise allusion free. Maybe that makes these less “great,” but this is where I’m at. It is still a walking poem, the whole thing being composed and revised in my head while dogwalking. Dan, you may be interested in knowing that I also had some acoustic guitar in my head for the second part, and if it were a song, Johnny Cash would have to sing it the way he did in covering Petty’s I Won’t Back Down. There, will that make up for the lack of allusion?
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Back to the Bloog
Dan, I enjoyed your last poem, and wonder if we shouldn’t be submitting our extra-bloogular commentary to the symposium. I suppose that’s up to each email’s author, though. As for my own comments, regarding allusions, I wanted to at least add this to the mix: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is a great poem in part because of its extensive use of allusions - and yet, by its rhythm and repetition and rich imagery, it is also a great example of a poem that can be appreciated on many levels, even if we don’t “get” all the references. If anyone is interested, check out http://www.thirtybirdspoetry.com/2011/03/social-creatures.html for my own Prufrock allusions. Senza tema d'infamia ti rispondo.
Anyway, here’s my latest one or two efforts. I’ve alluded to these in those extra-bloogular exchanges and in recent phone calls with Mom, but these are otherwise allusion free. Maybe that makes these less “great,” but this is where I’m at. It is still a walking poem, the whole thing being composed and revised in my head while dogwalking. Dan, you may be interested in knowing that I also had some acoustic guitar in my head for the second part, and if it were a song, Johnny Cash would have to sing it the way he did in covering Petty’s I Won’t Back Down. There, will that make up for the lack of allusion?
Anyway, here’s my latest one or two efforts. I’ve alluded to these in those extra-bloogular exchanges and in recent phone calls with Mom, but these are otherwise allusion free. Maybe that makes these less “great,” but this is where I’m at. It is still a walking poem, the whole thing being composed and revised in my head while dogwalking. Dan, you may be interested in knowing that I also had some acoustic guitar in my head for the second part, and if it were a song, Johnny Cash would have to sing it the way he did in covering Petty’s I Won’t Back Down. There, will that make up for the lack of allusion?
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