hey happy to have made a morning! :)
perhaps it is technically a spear; very practical (except to lug
around). leverage.
thanks for the condolences; she actually passed over a year ago, this
was sort of an overdue ceremony. I chose the rock with my mother & her
uncle as mentioned, it had to be fitting in size, colour & type. a
beautiful red.
my parents' families are from Karelia & Häme, I also live in
'helsinki' or what's called the capital-city-region. 20mins from
central Helsinki.
tell your husband, if you like, "vaimonne ympäristöntaju vaikuttaa
syvältä & ketterältä". :)
KS
On 25/07/06, Rachel Loden <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Kasper, thanks so much! It's my husband, Jussi Ketonen, who's the Finn. But
> that's amazing about the iron spear--you really just used one? To pry up a
> boulder? I'm very sorry about your grandmother.
>
> My husband has a phrase, a folk-saying I guess, "I am from us and the rest
> are from elsewhere." He's from Helsinki by way of Ostrobothnia, the wild
> west of Finland. Where does your family hail from?
>
> Again, many thanks for this very interesting note--makes my morning.
>
> Warm regards,
> Rachel
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to
> > poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> > Behalf Of Kasper
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 5:43 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: "What the Gravedigger Needs"
> >
> > "Teuva, Finland"?? ollaanko sitä maanmiehiä? :)
> >
> > all congratulations; also, it's a wonderful poem. if that
> > sounds a bit hollow, know that I only call wonderful poems wonderful.
> > the atmosphere is fascinating, reminiscent of a scene from
> > Hamlet (maybe I saw it on tv), you know which?only it has a
> > beautiful minimalistic twitch that yanks it into a sort of
> > semi-modern timelessness (a bicycle is pretty timeless, to
> > me). also amazing is that the poem's LIGHTING is vividly
> > gloomy/dark/stark, solely due to the word "lantern" (& the
> > context). "bicycle to go from grave to grave" is morbid in a
> > very, very, very entertaining way. what an excellent poem.
> >
> > also, I can relate to the "iron spear" (kanki, oletan), a few
> > days ago I used one to help my mother's uncle pry up a
> > boulder to be used as my grandmother's headstone.
> >
> > KS
> >
> > PS if you don't speak finnish & I completely misunderstood
> > the "Finland" thing, don't worry I didn't say anything
> > unflattering. ;)
> >
> > On 25/07/06, Rachel Loden <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >
> > > If you're so inclined, one of my poems from the new issue of New
> > > American Writing is at Poetry Daily today, and afterwards
> > for a year in the archives:
> > >
> > > http://www.poems.com/
> > >
> > >
> > > How to get a copy (from the editors, Maxine Chernoff and
> > Paul Hoover):
> > >
> > > New American Writing 24 (2006) has just been published and can be
> > > ordered directlyfrom New American Writing, 369 Molino Avenue, Mill
> > > Valley, CA 94941, for $13 ($2 off the cover price).
> > >
> > > You can save $3 an issue, a total savings of $9,by ordering a
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> > >
> > > To use a credit a card, order single copiesor
> > > subscriptionsonlinethrough the NAW website,
> > www.newamericanwriting.com.
> > >
> > > The 220 page issue contains agenerous Nathaniel Mackey feature
> > > including "The Atmosphere is Alive," an interview with the poet by
> > > Sarah Rosenthal and arepresentative selection of his poetry
> > and prose.
> > >
> > > Also featured are translations of the poetry of Pura Lopez-Colome
> > > (Jason Stumpf), Pablo Neruda (Clayton Eshleman), Aase Berg
> > (Johannes
> > > Gorranson), Vladimir Holan Josef Horacek & Lara Glenum), YangJian
> > > (Wang Ping and Alex Lemon), Yao Feng (Christopher Kelen), Eugenio
> > > Montejo (Kirk Nesset), and eight poems of Nguyen
> > Trai,1380-1442, one
> > > of Vietnam's greatest poets (Nguyen Do& Paul Hoover).
> > >
> > > Asalways,poetry in electrifying English:Pierre Joris, Rosmarie
> > > Waldrop, Clayton Eshleman, Mac Wellman, Karen
> > Garthe,Martine Bellen,
> > > Rusty Morrison, Joanna Klink, Edward Smallfield,Joseph Lease, Brian
> > > Teare, Diane Newman, G.C. Waldrep, John Olson, Campbell
> > McGrath, Devin
> > > Johnston, Lisa Isaacson, Ethan Paquin, Douglas Messerli, Caroline
> > > Knox, Rachel Loden, Terence Winch, Todd Swift, Patrick Pritchett,
> > > Craig Watson, Stephen Vincent, FredMarchant, Valerie Coulton, Maged
> > > Zaher, Carol Ciavonne,Sandra Park, Curtis Bonney, George Kalamaras,
> > > DaneenWardrop, Katie Degentesh, Michael Magee, Sharon Mesmer, Susan
> > > Maxwell, Barbara Jane Reyes, Susen James, Noelle Kocot, Chad
> > > Faries,Nathan Hauke, John Sakkis, DanielTiffany, Max
> > Winter, James Meetze, Lori Shine, and Andrew Early.
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> > >
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