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reaxeions (sic) being multitudinous is part of what makes good poetry great, I'd say. :) hahaa children in mineshafts. imagine all the abandoned first drafts. KS On 04/05/07, Bob Marcacci <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > i didn't have the same reaxeion to this poem... why highlight this section, > Anny? the language and imaages seem relatively expected... > > -- > Bob Marcacci > > The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. > You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation. > - James Fenton > > > > > From: Anny Ballardini <[log in to unmask]> > > Reply-To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]> > > Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 12:48:33 +0200 > > To: <[log in to unmask]> > > Subject: Re: Poem at Babel > > > > This is an excellent poem. I would like to highlight the following: > > > > " > > > > the blistered city broken open by these > > > > brutal silences-our silence & that which falls > > > > between the flash of light & the shockwave > > > > of super-heated air & blur of shrapnel that > > > > snaps bones & reduces the body to pulp." > > > > > > > > On 5/4/07, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> > >> a great response to a great poem. I found the tones interestingly > >> similar & yet separate, like they were most certainly written in > >> different eras. > >> there's a fun part in Pat Barker's _Regeneration_ where Siegfried > >> Sassoon helps Owen with "Anthem". > >> > >> KS > >> > >> On 04/05/07, Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >>> Bit of self-promotion. I have a poem in the Summer 2007 issue of > >>> Babel<http://www.icorn.org/articles.php?var=63>. > >>> Anger & despair about Iraq. > >>> > >>> jd > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Joseph Duemer > >>> Professor of Humanities > >>> Clarkson University > >>> [sharpsand.net] > >>> > >> >