How about vampire haiku?
By moonlight
your lavender throat.
Ah! Persimmons!
Garlic.
Feh.
How's a beast to eat?
Who'd have guessed?
A cold stone
is hearth and home.
Strange. It's my lover's blood
that throbs within her
now.
How grounded I'd be
in this bit of ground
if not for UPS!
At 12:48 PM 2/28/2007, you wrote:
>What a good idea, Joanna! The topic seems admirably
>suited to the genre.
>
>Care to jump-start us with a poem?
>
>Candice
>
>
>
>--- Joanna Boulter <[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:
>
> > But hasn't anyone written any vampire poems? And if
> > not, why not?
> >
> > Just a thought.
> >
> > joanna
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "MC Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 3:40 PM
> > Subject: Re: Vlad the Impaler
> >
> >
> > > I'd love to see your course list, Doug--thank you,
> > and
> > > I wish I could take a course like yours. However,
> > it
> > > would be hard for me, as usual, to avoid the
> > "Zizak
> > > problem" of staying on text. No matter what I
> > see/read
> > > of the "reimaginings of _Dracula_, I eventually
> > end up
> > > back with Stoker and, in my Signet Classic
> > edition,
> > > the fine introduction by Leonard Woolf.
> > >
> > > Now, we'd better get back to poetry, as Joe has
> > gently
> > > suggested, and leave other things to the "shadow
> > > world" of the back channel.
> > >
> > > Candice
> > >
> > > My great hope in making this story public is that
> > it
> > > will find at least one reader who will understand
> > it
> > > for what it actually is: a cri de coeur. To you,
> > > perceptive reader, I bequeath my history.
> > > (Elizabeth Kostova)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --- Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Thanks for this, Candice; I'll keep a look out
> > for
> > >> it.
> > >>
> > >> I'm just a bit of a reader of vampire fiction (&
> > a
> > >> big, but not really
> > >> fannish, fan of Buffy). And the last English
> > course
> > >> I taught, in my
> > >> retirement year, was a senior course on popular
> > >> culture titled
> > >> Twentieth Century Vampires, which took in a long
> > >> 20th century as we
> > >> began with some short fiction & Dracula from the
> > >> 1890s.
> > >>
> > >> There are a couple of novels, highly
> > >> erotic/romantic, starring Mina, &
> > >> Dracula's last sister, that take the original
> > story
> > >> further, Mina &
> > >> Blood to Blood.
> > >>
> > >> If you'd like to see my course list, I'd be happy
> > to
> > >> send it b/c.
> > >>
> > >> Doug
> > >> On 27-Feb-07, at 10:01 AM, MC Ward wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > Doug (and others who may be interested in the
> > >> > narrative strategies used to recover--or
> > >> recuperate-
> > >> > the history as well as the new "reimaginings"
> > of
> > >> the
> > >> > Dracula legend), there's a new novel out called
> > >> > (unfortunately, in my opinion) _Fangland_ by
> > John
> > >> > Marks. This time the Dracula material is set in
> > >> the
> > >> > world of broadcast journalism, where
> > "Evangeline
> > >> > Harker" (presumably the daughter or
> > granddaughter
> > >> of
> > >> > Jonathan and Mina) works as a producer. The
> > novel
> > >> > begins with her journals, as Stoker's does with
> > >> > Harker's journal, apart from a brief foreword
> > by
> > >> one
> > >> > James Malley that is similar to Stoker's.
> > Malley
> > >> > begins by saying that "the following document"
> > was
> > >> > "generated in the spirit of the 9-11 Commission
> > >> > Report," which gives you some idea of its
> > >> deliberately
> > >> > contemporary basis. Again, there are several
> > >> > speakers/writers competing for the "I"
> > position.
> > >> > "James Malley" also says in his foreword that
> > the
> > >> book
> > >> > is "an heir to the great novels of the realism
> > of
> > >> the
> > >> > nineteenth century, a Tolstoyan account of
> > >> calamity."
> > >> >
> > >> > That's all I can tell you about _Fangland_,
> > which
> > >> I
> > >> > acquired at my local library just today. (I
> > also
> > >> > ordered _Children of the Night_--on the basis
> > of
> > >> > Doug's recommendation--thanks for the tip.)
> > >> >
> > >> > I'm curious, Doug, about your interest in this
> > >> > material. Can you say something about that?
> > >> >
> > >> > Candice
> > >> >
> > >> > There is throughout no statement of past things
> > >> > wherein memory may err...
> > >> > (Bram Stoker)
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >
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> > >> There was no sign of survivors, and
> > >> the poetry reading went on.
> > >>
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