Joe, Connolly's are certainly far more human & have a good, real,
strong voice that doesn't need poetic imagery to enhance it. I prefer
his, but I still dig both
KS
On 11/10/2007, joe green <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Those poems are pretty weak. Compare to Vietnam war poetry, for example, here:
>
> http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Texts/Poetry/Connolly_poems_4&3.html#Our%20Fourth%20LT
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> Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: I think the responses are as interesting as the post by Turner, Gerald.
>
> They demonstrate that the kind of traditional modern poetry he writes,
> when coming form an experience most of us can't & won't have, can speak
> to many readers. I of course did think about those WW1 poets whose work
> seems, still, to me to dig deeper, but he is making that gesture, & was
> there, to write from that feral knowledge, & so his poems can reach
> those who are already thinking thoughts against the grain of power in
> the US (& its lies: I think what I miss from his view is any sense that
> he was serving those lies).
>
> Doug
> On 9-Oct-07, at 5:35 AM, Gerald Schwartz wrote:
>
> > A grain of salt, a grain of sand...
> >
> > http://homefires.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/verses-in-wartime-part
> > -1-in-country/index.html?ref=opinion
> >
> > Gerald S.
> >
> >
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> Decline, Fall, to futility and larks,
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