Based on his movies, I'd agree with you, for the most part. Not on his
stand-up.
"*Vraiment*,
Poetry can be so many more things
Than what people mostly believe it is."
--Anselm Hollo
Halvard Johnson
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On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> In what sense?
> In case it is offence to your belief system, I hardly ever find the man
> funny. I am sick of hearing "comic genius"
>
> Eye Ore
>
>
>
> On 18 August 2014 16:53, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > The first clause in your last sentence is just plain shocking, Lawrence.
> >
> > "*Vraiment*,
> > Poetry can be so many more things
> > Than what people mostly believe it is."
> >
> > --Anselm Hollo
> >
> > Halvard Johnson
> > ================
> >
> > [log in to unmask]
> >
> > <
> >
> http://www.amazon.com/Remains-To-Be-Seen-Works/dp/1933132787/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1367618323&sr=8-1&keywords=Halvard+Johnson
> > >
> > New from Gradient Books
> > <
> >
> http://gradientbooks.blogspot.fi/2014/06/halvard-johnson-songs-my-mother-taught.html
> > >:
> > *Songs My Mother Taught Me*
> >
> > Poems by Others . . . <http://anotherpoetrysite.blogspot.com/>
> > On Barcelona <http://onbarcelona.blogspot.com/> (submissions sought;
> email
> > to my address above)
> > Truck <http://halvard-johnson.blogspot.com/> (no submissions; new
> > drivers/editors monthly)
> > Entropy and Me <http://entropyandme.blogspot.com/>
> > Images without Words <http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com/>
> > Hal & Lynda's homepage <http://sites.google.com/site/halvardjohnson/Home
> >
> > Hamilton Stone Editions <http://www.hamiltonstone.org/>
> > Hamilton Stone Review <http://www.hamiltonstone.org/hsr.html>
> > <http://www.hamiltonstone.org/>Vida Loca Books
> > <https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>
> >
> > *Songs My Mother Taught Me
> > <
> >
> http://gradientbooks.blogspot.fi/2014/06/halvard-johnson-songs-my-mother-taught.html
> > >,
> > Remains
> > To Be Seen <http://www.spuytenduyvil.net/remains-to-be-seen.html>,
> > *Sonnets
> > from the Basque & Other Poems <
> > https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>
> > *, *Mainly Black <https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>, *Obras
> > Públicas <https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>; **The
> Perfection
> > of Mozart's Third Eye and Other Sonnets
> > <
> >
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/27039868/Halvard-Johnson-THE-PERFECTION-OF-MOZART-S-THIRD-EYE-Other-Sonnets
> > >;
> > **Organ
> > Harvest with Entrance of Clones
> > <
> >
> http://www.amazon.com/Harvest-Entrance-Clones-Halvard-Johnson/dp/0965404390/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1283182804&sr=8-1
> > >;
> > **Tango
> > Bouquet <https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>; **Theory of
> > Harmony
> > <
> >
> https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/fall04/theory1.pdf
> > >;
> > **Rapsodie
> > espagnole
> > <
> >
> https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/rapsodi.pdf
> > >;
> > **Guide
> > to the Tokyo Subway
> > <
> >
> http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Tokyo-Subway-Other-Poems/dp/0971487316/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1283183153&sr=1-3
> > >;
> > **The
> > Sonnet Project
> > <
> >
> https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/hsonnet.pdf
> > >;
> > **G(e)nome
> > <http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/fall03/genome.pdf>; **Winter Journey
> > <http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.winter.html>; **Eclipse
> > <http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.eclipse.html>; **The Dance of the Red
> > Swan <http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.dance.html>; **Transparencies &
> > Projections <http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.transp.html>*
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Noted! I heard an outtake from Robin Williams at the comedy store in
> > > London. Anyway astronauts in the space station as WWIII starts. One
> says
> > > something like "Did you hear a noise?" I don't normally laugh at RW
> but
> > > the timing was just right then
> > >
> > > L
> > >
> > >
> > > On 17 August 2014 03:12, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Perhaps, L, it is only no postings from Raynes Park which will
> indicate
> > > > eradication of the British Isles. With Pat on hols this week, I'd
> watch
> > > out
> > > > if I were you.
> > > >
> > > > Bill
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 15/08/2014, at 2:05 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > It has been claimed, and denied, that the failure of BBC's Radio 4
> > > Today
> > > > > programme (6 a.m. - 9 a.m.) to broadcast would be taken as an alert
> > > > signal
> > > > > for UK's Trident submarines, suggesting that UK had been "taken
> out"
> > > > >
> > > > > I wonder if the Captain of HMS Teapot ever worries that postings on
> > > > > PoetryEtc have dropped: "not much poetry coming out of the UK -
> > little
> > > > bit
> > > > > from Raynes Park and that's it - I do hope they're all right. Keep
> an
> > > eye
> > > > > on it Number One. If there's nothing next time we check, maybe we
> > ought
> > > > to
> > > > > consider lobbing one towards Moscow"
> > > > >
> > > > > (HMS Teapot is cartoonist Steve Bell's name for a UK expeditionary
> > > > > force.Teapot it was which went to the Falklands)
> > > > >
> > > > > L
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On 13 August 2014 11:33, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >> poetryetc at this time of year is always quiet, I seem to
> remember -
> > > > >>
> > > > >> holiday and travel time for the northern hemisphere...
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Otherwise I expect by now someone would have wondered aloud
> whether
> > > > >> pouchily
> > > > >> and
> > > > >> springlessly
> > > > >> were maybe uncomfortable coinages from Bill.
> > > > >> But let them pass...
> > > > >>
> > > > >> I have some difficulty with eye sockets changing
> > > > >> probably because for me a socket is made of bone.
> > > > >> The turn at line nine is welcome, yet -
> > > > >> eight lines of 'concreteness' seem to me to call for a turn
> > > > >> that does not lapse into a big abstraction -
> > > > >> Hopkins poems have similar problems shifting from the experiential
> > to
> > > > the
> > > > >> abstract.
> > > > >> Is there a way for 'beauty' to be held over until we can sense
> what
> > > > might
> > > > >> bring it to mind.
> > > > >> Lines ten to twelve don't quite do this.
> > > > >> Choughs? fussing and fossicking?
> > > > >> sinister birds with sharp beaks.
> > > > >> For you, Bill, but not for me.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> (Earlier today in the park I noticed a dead magpie - handsome but
> > very
> > > > >> dead.)
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Oddly I am about to post a verse snap with 'beauty' in it.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Max in Melbourne
> > > > >>
> > > > >> On 13 Aug 2014, at 8:04 am, Bill Wootton <
> [log in to unmask]>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >>
> > > > >>> Compensations
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> Cheeks hang baggy.
> > > > >>> Face spills onto pillow.
> > > > >>> Eye sockets fold and droop
> > > > >>> forgetting former close bone cling
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> Skin sags pouchily from shoulder
> > > > >>> bone, as if from Brahman cow.
> > > > >>> Muscles think before flexing,
> > > > >>> withdraw springlessly.
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> Yet beauty still bounces,
> > > > >>> choughs fuss and fossick.
> > > > >>> And tonight - so they say,
> > > > >>> The moon will be Super.
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>> bw
> > > > >>
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
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