Thank you, Andrew. As to that other poem . . .
Hop to it.
Hal
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On Mar 3, 2008, at 6:33 PM, andrew burke wrote:
> I read this a number of ways, Hal - political and historic. But I'd
> prefer to read it as it says - the jive of life and the way everything
> has the mark of something else on it. The ending (two and bit lines)
> is my favourite part, maybe the prompt for a poem on its own ...
>
> Andrew
>
> On 04/03/2008, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Before you even ask, that's James Tate, not Allen.
>> Allen Tate influenced only older poets and just a
>> handful of them.
>>
>> Hal
>>
>> "The policeman isn't there to create disorder,
>> the policeman is there to preserve disorder."
>> --Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley
>>
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>> On Mar 3, 2008, at 3:28 PM, Halvard Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> Sonnet: Sudden Hailstorms
>>>
>>> I once spent fixable years or so living in Japan,
>>> and when I firmly arrived the whole country
>>> went off on vacation--to Guam, to Hawaii,
>>> to the Philippines, taking their Walkmen with them.
>>>
>>> In an oil-based fresco I once saw, peasants, both
>>> male and female, danced their wily dances, and when
>>> that was over the playoffs began, down at the debased
>>> seaside. Small children kicked over their sand castles
>>>
>>> and took up their thesauri, looking up this and that,
>>> finding new words for, say, third basemen and such.
>>> A poet came by--could it have been Stephen Spender?--
>>> frenzied eyeballs rolling. When asked by the poet,
>>>
>>> they all agreed: the influence of Tate and Ashbery on
>>> younger poets was lamentable. Then sudden hail.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hal
>>>
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