Comments for Close Calls With Nonsense

Comment on a mike chasar christmas by Guy

Guy — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:22:01 +0000

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Comment on Blacksmith House, and more by Shelley

Shelley — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:01:25 +0000

Thank you for opening up that essay into the question of how to write about history. It’s tone that’s the killer: the impulse to speak about history is a moral impulse and rightfully so; but Keats is just as correct in feeling averse to a self-righteous poetry that puts its hands in its pockets and walks away. In a sense, the crucial question is the same as for our current public discourse: how to build a channel for passion that keeps the powerful rush without drowning the humility of thought.

Comment on in hyde park (for robert von hallberg) by cultdream

cultdream — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:20:14 +0000

RvH ftw ++ i found this page in the midst of putting together a bibliography for a small class on his incredible Lyric Powers @ NCF

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http://seathings.bandcamp.com <– lots of close calls with nonsense there!

Comment on evening out by Shelley

Shelley — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:35:50 +0000

I won’t give the word away, but I’m glad she gives all those different versions.

Never underestimate how lucky we are to be working in a language with roots in the richness of Middle English.

Comment on a mike chasar christmas by Shelley

Shelley — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:44:25 +0000

Worse than a sigh: an eye-roll.

But I’d never visited that site before, thanks. Click back to the post on Frost putting out Christmas work.

But he never, ever, wrote for material reasons. Lived for it? Taught for it? Spoke for it? Sure.

But didn’t write for it. Ever.

Comment on from Minneapolis by Shelley

Shelley — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:43:08 +0000

Stephen Burt:

Are you channeling Randall Jarrell?

None better.

“What A Review Can Do” took my breath away.

Come visit.

Comment on owl music by Jee Leong Koh

Jee Leong Koh — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 02:53:14 +0000

I like the description “quasi.” I think I may have found the title for the book after my next.

Jee

Comment on NBCC! by USB to Serial :

USB to Serial : — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:05:56 +0000

it is easy to make great poems if you are very very inspired:”*

Comment on cusps in greensboro by Writezilla

Writezilla — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 10:34:15 +0000

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Comment on brought to you by by Bar Fridge `

Bar Fridge ` — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 05:03:06 +0000

oh i just thought that paracetamol is safer than ibuprofen”-`