I have a thing about feet.
jd
On Jan 27, 2008 2:35 PM, Anny Ballardini <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> This is lovely Tad, thank you!
> With your permission I will put it on my blog and change that nasty Annie
> into Anny
>
> p.s.: Barefoot is Joseph Duemer's poetic license.
> On Jan 27, 2008 11:09 AM, TheOldMole <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > 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!
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > --
> > 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
> >
>
>
>
> --
> 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!
>
--
Joseph Duemer
Professor of Humanities
Clarkson University
[sharpsand.net]
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