i didn't have the same reaxeion to this poem... why highlight this section,
Anny? the language and imaages seem relatively expected...
--
Bob Marcacci
The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft.
You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.
- James Fenton
> From: Anny Ballardini <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 12:48:33 +0200
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Poem at Babel
>
> This is an excellent poem. I would like to highlight the following:
>
> "
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> the blistered city broken open by these
>
> brutal silences-our silence & that which falls
>
> between the flash of light & the shockwave
>
> of super-heated air & blur of shrapnel that
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> snaps bones & reduces the body to pulp."
>
>
>
> On 5/4/07, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> a great response to a great poem. I found the tones interestingly
>> similar & yet separate, like they were most certainly written in
>> different eras.
>> there's a fun part in Pat Barker's _Regeneration_ where Siegfried
>> Sassoon helps Owen with "Anthem".
>>
>> KS
>>
>> On 04/05/07, Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> Bit of self-promotion. I have a poem in the Summer 2007 issue of
>>> Babel<http://www.icorn.org/articles.php?var=63>.
>>> Anger & despair about Iraq.
>>>
>>> jd
>>>
>>> --
>>> Joseph Duemer
>>> Professor of Humanities
>>> Clarkson University
>>> [sharpsand.net]
>>>
>>
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