You are right Janet - lovely, sharp, coring stuff Ken. I love it.
Caleb
On 9/27/07, Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> At last, the poem to yank me out of my lurking!
> A focused narrative that gives this not-at-all-Jewish person
> a strong idea of what it might feel like.
>
> The title may be a bit, er, throwaway, but it works as a grab for
> attention.
>
> The last stanza attains the personal-yet-universal magic
> we're all looking for:
>
> > my father at a rest I never saw in his lifetime,
> > relaxed into the arms of what he'd courted
> > from the first day he knew he could court anything.
> > It eluded him in the battle already ended in France,
> > it fled him in the fur markets, it laughed at him in two marriages,
> > it mocked him through the worthlessness of the child
> > (or is that children?) he fathered ...
>
> but when you strike at yourself like that, the poem stumbles.
>
> Janet
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