Barefoot in Florence --
A dress that was pinkish
At four in the morning.
Pleasure in torrents,
Adventure to relish
Barefoot in Florence.
Tourists, take warning:
Pleasure can vanish
At four in the morning;
Borne by those currents,
The young and foolish
Are barefoot in Florence.
Libidos are churning --
It’s something to cherish
At four in the morning.
Annie – concurrence
To any such yearning
May still be a fetish
At four in the morning.
Barefoot in Florence.
Joseph Duemer wrote:
> Well, Anny, If you keep telling us stories about being barefoot in Florence
> at four in the morning wearing a pink dress -- is that how the story went?
> -- how can you blame us?
>
> jd
>
> On Jan 27, 2008 9:52 AM, Anny Ballardini <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
>> Me fetishized? Is it a severe condition, does it have secondary effects?
>>
>>
>> On Jan 26, 2008 8:19 PM, Gabriel Gudding <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Kasper,
>>>
>>> Sorry I missed your question.
>>>
>>> You ask what I think of Ron's blog.
>>>
>>> Well, I think it's a good example of literary violence -- and of someone
>>> who is very very obedient to the illusion of literature and deeply
>>> invested in: (a) consecration, (b) canon making, (c) pigeon-holing, (d)
>>> distinctions, and (e) the dream of judgment.
>>>
>>> In other words, it's a good example of fetish. Belief in literature.
>>>
>>> Too, I guess in some ways Ron's blog is a machine of capital (not fiscal
>>> but symbolic), whose purpose is to accrue as much cultural capital as
>>> possible -- to in fact monopolize, or at least corner the market on, a
>>> set of symbolic goods.
>>>
>>> So in short it's business as usual. Even tho Ron will say he doesn't
>>> believe in individual authors, he still basically follows the New
>>> Critical m.o. for establishing author function by (a) authorial
>>> celebration, (b) apodictic tone (assertion parading as demonstration),
>>> (c) divisive rhetoric (dismissive or conciliatory), (d) obsessive
>>> concern about what will stand "the test of time" -- and probably the
>>> thing that most anchors Ron as a grandchild of New Criticism: (e) the
>>> ritualistic "close reading" (pretending to focus on "form" and "craft"
>>> as a means of carrying out an attempt to consecrate or dismiss).
>>>
>>> Another way of putting it: Ron's blog is a giant mechanism whose purpose
>>> is to create, if absent, and anchor, if present, belief. Belief in
>>> distinctions -- rather than awareness of relations.
>>>
>>> Or another way to think of it is: The enactment of orthodoxy by a former
>>> heretic.
>>>
>>> If Ron's blog were a religion, it would be Mormonism.
>>>
>>> Or. The enactment of a doxological illusion common to literature: the
>>> belief that one can locate somewhere in the field of polemics or
>>> celebration something upon which one can never exhaust the urge to
>>> fetishize. Olson? Creeley? Dickinson? Barbour? Ballardini?
>>>
>>> Ron's blog is a hunt for that inexhaustible object/author.
>>>
>>> So, that's what I think of Ron's blog. What I think of Ron himself, or
>>> what he presents of himself on his blog and in his work, is that he's a
>>> good Joe who's maybe a little too enamored with the illusion of "poetry"
>>> and who maybe needs to read Bourdieu. :)
>>>
>>> Poetry really is about human beings. It's not about poetry.
>>>
>>> Sorry if this is a bit too much information, Kasper.
>>>
>>> Gabe
>>> http://gabrielgudding.blogspot.com/
>>> http://rhodeislandnotebook.blogspot.com/
>>>
>>> <<oh. I was asking Gabe what *he* thinks of Silliman's blog. if his
>>>
>> poem
>>
>>> is a nightmare or absurd dream or true reflection.
>>>
>>> KS>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Anny Ballardini
>> http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
>> http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
>> http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html
>> I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
>> star!
>>
>>
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--
Tad Richards
http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
http://opusforty.blogspot.com/
The moral is this: in American verse,
The better you are, the pay is worse.
--Corey Ford
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