that greeny flower!
also, saxifrage
KS
On 06/07/07, Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> And asphodels.
>
> jd
>
> On 7/6/07, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > Mark, WCW was fonder of cyclamens I recall.
> >
> > what a pile of shit, this
> >
> > KS
> >
> > On 06/07/07, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > "crushed chrysanthemum petals underfoot" rang my bell. WCW should sue.
> > >
> > > At 01:52 AM 7/6/2007, you wrote:
> > > >Cor !!'What am I but the flower of your deepest self?'
> > > >Patrick
> > > >
> > > >-----Original Message-----
> > > >From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > On
> > > >Behalf Of joe green
> > > >Sent: 06 July 2007 02:37
> > > >To: [log in to unmask]
> > > >Subject: Re: more on rejections
> > > >
> > > >Good God!
> > > >
> > > >Frederick Pollack <[log in to unmask]> wrote: I sent my last
> > collection to
> > > >a contest. Prairie Schooner literary prize. Big - $3000 +
> > publication.
> > > >Didn't really think I'd win - my work is intolerable, grating,
> > impossible -
> > > >but was curious what would. This lady did. I googled her, found
> > following
> > > >recent poem. Leave aside how obviously well-connected she is, in what
> > is
> > > >supposed to be an impartial contest. I have to say I admire her poem,
> > in an
> > > >Aristotelian way: it is something perfect of its kind. Which is that
> > of
> > > >nice sentimental escapist cliche-ridden shapeless Sensitive mainstream
> > > >blobcrap. As I recall, I sent another lovely example of the genre
> > sometime
> > > >last year. Enjoy.
> > > >
> > > >The Bush Warbler Laments to the Woodcutter
> > > >
> > > >I offered you sanctuary with one condition.
> > > >Even this much you could not hold.
> > > >
> > > >When you looked into the forbidden chamber
> > > >my three daughters became birds
> > > >and flew away from me forever.
> > > >
> > > >Memory of our transgressions is a stone. It lies
> > > >on the seabed of our deepest forgetting.
> > > >
> > > >-regret and sorrow in the making
> > > >
> > > >Before you came I swept this house daily
> > > >with a long broom of rice straw.
> > > >
> > > >Often I would wander from room to room,
> > > >touching each treasure as I passed:
> > > >
> > > >a golden screen, three red lacquer bowls-
> > > >Now, all is dust suspended in late sunlight.
> > > >
> > > >This forest house, with its paper doors and secrets,
> > > >is too large for me now. Let it dissolve in mist
> > > >and absence, no trace left for the lost children.
> > > >
> > > >What am I but the flower of your deepest self?
> > > >
> > > >-crushed chrysanthemum petals underfoot
> > > >
> > > >Instead, I am cast out across vast distances,
> > > >circling far above the trees, never to be human.
> > > >
> > > >You will say that a grand house once stood
> > > >in a forest clearing. Then: nothing but birdcalls.
> > > >
> > > >Longing itself is nothing but the heart's open spaces.
> > > >
> > > >-regret and sorrow, come calling
> > > >
> > > >If I could make it so, I would be the one left alone
> > > >in the meadow, rubbing my eyes and wondering.
> > > >
> > > >Remember this: I, once a woman, took you in,
> > > >an exchange for a promise kept.
> > > >
> > > >Three maidens startled, then transformed into birds.
> > > >
> > > >Whatever you abandon returns in your dreams.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >Mari L'Esperance is a graduate of New York University's creative
> > writing
> > > >program, where she was a New York Times Company Foundation Creative
> > Writing
> > > >Fellow. L'Esperance's poems have appeared in Pequod, The Beloit Poetry
> > > >Journal, Barnabe Mountain Review, Salamander, and several other
> > periodicals
> > > >and an anthology. A chapbook manuscript, Begin Here, was awarded first
> > prize
> > > >in the 1999 Sarasota Poetry Theatre Press national chapbook competition
> > and
> > > >was published in 2000. In 2002 L'Esperance received a Pushcart Prize
> > > >nomination for her poem "Pantoum of the Blind Cambodian Women", which
> > was
> > > >published in The Worcester Review. L'Esperance has been awarded
> > residency
> > > >grants from Dorland Mountain Arts Colony and Hedgebrook. She has taught
> > > >creative writing at NYU, Merritt College in Oakland, California, and
> > the
> > > >Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She is currently training
> > to be
> > > >a psychotherapist and lives in Oakland.
> > > >
> > > >L'Esperance, who is of Japanese and French Canadian-American descent,
> > was
> > > >born in Kobe, Japan and raised in southern California, Micronesia, and
> > > >Japan.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >---------------------------------
> > > >Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha!
> > > >Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo!
> > > >Games.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >--
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> > >
> >
>
>
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> --
> Joseph Duemer
> Professor of Humanities
> Clarkson University
> [sharpsand.net]
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