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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!