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And asphodels. jd On 7/6/07, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Mark, WCW was fonder of cyclamens I recall. > > what a pile of shit, this > > KS > > On 06/07/07, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > "crushed chrysanthemum petals underfoot" rang my bell. WCW should sue. > > > > At 01:52 AM 7/6/2007, you wrote: > > >Cor !!'What am I but the flower of your deepest self?' > > >Patrick > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > > >From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > On > > >Behalf Of joe green > > >Sent: 06 July 2007 02:37 > > >To: [log in to unmask] > > >Subject: Re: more on rejections > > > > > >Good God! > > > > > >Frederick Pollack <[log in to unmask]> wrote: I sent my last > collection to > > >a contest. Prairie Schooner literary prize. Big - $3000 + > publication. > > >Didn't really think I'd win - my work is intolerable, grating, > impossible - > > >but was curious what would. This lady did. I googled her, found > following > > >recent poem. Leave aside how obviously well-connected she is, in what > is > > >supposed to be an impartial contest. I have to say I admire her poem, > in an > > >Aristotelian way: it is something perfect of its kind. Which is that > of > > >nice sentimental escapist cliche-ridden shapeless Sensitive mainstream > > >blobcrap. As I recall, I sent another lovely example of the genre > sometime > > >last year. Enjoy. > > > > > >The Bush Warbler Laments to the Woodcutter > > > > > >I offered you sanctuary with one condition. > > >Even this much you could not hold. > > > > > >When you looked into the forbidden chamber > > >my three daughters became birds > > >and flew away from me forever. > > > > > >Memory of our transgressions is a stone. It lies > > >on the seabed of our deepest forgetting. > > > > > >-regret and sorrow in the making > > > > > >Before you came I swept this house daily > > >with a long broom of rice straw. > > > > > >Often I would wander from room to room, > > >touching each treasure as I passed: > > > > > >a golden screen, three red lacquer bowls- > > >Now, all is dust suspended in late sunlight. > > > > > >This forest house, with its paper doors and secrets, > > >is too large for me now. Let it dissolve in mist > > >and absence, no trace left for the lost children. > > > > > >What am I but the flower of your deepest self? > > > > > >-crushed chrysanthemum petals underfoot > > > > > >Instead, I am cast out across vast distances, > > >circling far above the trees, never to be human. > > > > > >You will say that a grand house once stood > > >in a forest clearing. Then: nothing but birdcalls. > > > > > >Longing itself is nothing but the heart's open spaces. > > > > > >-regret and sorrow, come calling > > > > > >If I could make it so, I would be the one left alone > > >in the meadow, rubbing my eyes and wondering. > > > > > >Remember this: I, once a woman, took you in, > > >an exchange for a promise kept. > > > > > >Three maidens startled, then transformed into birds. > > > > > >Whatever you abandon returns in your dreams. > > > > > > > > >Mari L'Esperance is a graduate of New York University's creative > writing > > >program, where she was a New York Times Company Foundation Creative > Writing > > >Fellow. L'Esperance's poems have appeared in Pequod, The Beloit Poetry > > >Journal, Barnabe Mountain Review, Salamander, and several other > periodicals > > >and an anthology. A chapbook manuscript, Begin Here, was awarded first > prize > > >in the 1999 Sarasota Poetry Theatre Press national chapbook competition > and > > >was published in 2000. In 2002 L'Esperance received a Pushcart Prize > > >nomination for her poem "Pantoum of the Blind Cambodian Women", which > was > > >published in The Worcester Review. L'Esperance has been awarded > residency > > >grants from Dorland Mountain Arts Colony and Hedgebrook. She has taught > > >creative writing at NYU, Merritt College in Oakland, California, and > the > > >Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She is currently training > to be > > >a psychotherapist and lives in Oakland. > > > > > >L'Esperance, who is of Japanese and French Canadian-American descent, > was > > >born in Kobe, Japan and raised in southern California, Micronesia, and > > >Japan. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >--------------------------------- > > >Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! > > >Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! > > >Games. > > > > > > > > >-- > > >No virus found in this incoming message. > > >Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > >Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.0/886 - Release Date: > 04/07/2007 > > >13:40 > > > -- Joseph Duemer Professor of Humanities Clarkson University [sharpsand.net]