and I will add: if JG wants to attack RS, then I suggest he do it
elsewhere than on Poetryetc.
Roger
On Dec 3, 2007 8:07 PM, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Indeed. Unfortunately I'd ignored that piece of doggerel.
>
> Roger
>
>
> On Dec 3, 2007 1:38 PM, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 13:38:43 -0800 Joe Green wrote:
> >
> > When he won the prize I expected to see him featured on the most popular
> > poetry blog on the internet but nary a word -- even tho he was connected
> > with Spicer and Blaser. Nothing..maybe because he was now associated with
> > the school of Quietude.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > from "The Deaths of Cruel Joe Green"
> >
> >
> > Then God made Joe read Silliman, Ron.
> >
> > Then insisted that he cry "Tres bon"
> >
> > Mean Joe died in a little while.
> >
> > Done to death by Ron's prose style.
> >
> > Cruel, cruel Joe Green.
> >
> >
> >
> > And on mean Joe Ron micturated.
> >
> > And declared him somewhat dated.
> >
> > Cruel, cruel Joe Green.
> >
> >
> >
> > Then God said "Joe, have you heard the rumor?
> >
> > Your verse is despised by the great Joe Duemer!"
> >
> > Which shows that God has a sense of humor.
> >
> > Unlike cruel, cruel Joe Green
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I have been very explicit. My remarks go way beyond the grotesqueness of
> > the Silliman perplex.
> >
> > Maybe if I am very specific once again, it will be possible to see that my
> > initial melancholy was caused by more than by the fact that a dull remark
> > by Silliman was taken seriously.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I agree wholeheartedly with Rachel's sentiments.
> >
> > Joe, your antipathy towards Ron is well-documented and I find your
> > interventions against Ron Silliman rather lacking in civility which is
> > a shame as I think what we do deserves better. One unintended
> > consequence of your intervention this time is that I shall go back and
> > re-read the article in question.
> >
> > Roger
> >
> >
> > On 7/10/07, Rachel Loden wrote:
> >
> > > Joe, I mostly can't make head or tail of what you're saying, esp. in the
> > > last message, except that you think it would be best not to take Ron
> > > Silliman seriously. I simply don't agree with this.
> >
>
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