It's more reference than form, both Tom's and mine. Tom's poem is "A very
thoughtful poem, being a canonical penance for sufferers of psychosomatic
asthma," in Intimate Voices, 1965-1983 (Newcastle upon Tyne: Galloping Dog
Press, 1984).
The references to the pastoral in a section of a poem I posted during that
discussion were drawn from Monteverdi's great madrigal Zefiro Torna, the
one from book 8 (he used the same title for another in book 4).
I sxuspect there are a great many unacknowledged such crossovers.
Check out also Ashbery in The Double Dream oif Spring, my favorite of his
books, " Variations, Calypso and Fugue on a Theme of Ella Wheeler Wilcox."
And of course Stevens' "Peter Quince at the Clavier."
And O'Hara's "The Day Lady Died."
Mark
At 06:53 PM 12/4/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Mark:
>
>Thank you. Will look for the Leonard. Funny you've also pursued some pop...
>with Carly Simon. About a decade ago
>I wrote a cycle of "explications" on Al Green tunes.
>
>Chrs,
>j.s.
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>Subject: Re: Ives at first writing
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>
> > Tom Leonard, also Mahler.
> >
> > Me, too, with Ives, Mozart, Mahler, Bach, Josquin, Machaut, Monteverdi,
>off
> > hand. Also Carly Simon.
> >
> > I think reference to music is pretty common. I can't think of too many
> > poems where the musical structure is in some sense replicated, except for
> > Zukofsky.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >
> > At 03:42 PM 12/4/2003 -0500, Halvard Johnson wrote:
> > >Jonathan Williams' *Mahler* comes to mind--Syms. 1-9, as I recall,
> > >all poemized some way or other. Don't have the book at hand, I'm
> > >afraid.
> > >
> > >Hal
> > >
> > >{ Anyone know of any poets, who, along
> > >{ the lines of Ronald Johnson's quilting of Ives into
> > >{ his Ark, or Zufkosky's musics, have incorporated
> > >{ structures, motifs, etc. of musical compositions into
> > >{ their work?
> > >{
> > >{ Thank you.
> > >{
> > >{ Jerry Schwartz
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