tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post5577118632130968496..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Tom Clark's Baseball and Classicism (A Poetry Comic by Nora Sawyer) Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-38538529779534314612013-03-05T07:44:43.831-08:002013-03-05T07:44:43.831-08:00Tom,
And now batting clean-up, Eurydice -- what a ...Tom,<br />And now batting clean-up, Eurydice -- what a sweet swing?<br /><br /><br />3.4<br /><br />light coming into fog against invisible<br />top of ridge, robin calling from branch<br />in foreground, wave sounding in channel<br /><br /> repeated, hear the physical<br /> as seen in part still<br /><br /> figure in smoke, reflection<br /> in light, lighting of<br /><br />grey white of sky reflected in channel,<br />shadowed green slope of ridge above it<br />STEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-49087801637138609242013-03-04T21:34:58.381-08:002013-03-04T21:34:58.381-08:00Thanks fellows. It must be the week of the World M...Thanks fellows. It must be the week of the World Mythological Baseball Classic.<br /><br />Rumour has it the Dutch look good, it's reported they've been pounding spikes into their wooden shoes (utilizing the stiff upper lip -- or was that the ever courageous French?) and taking batting practise against windmills (not hard for us to identify with that, right Sancho?). <br /><br />Whatever works for you in the Underworld.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-29711117289828722182013-03-04T14:27:40.037-08:002013-03-04T14:27:40.037-08:00A grand slam by anybody's book.A grand slam by anybody's book.vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-32426815220188501602013-03-04T12:11:06.974-08:002013-03-04T12:11:06.974-08:00Love it. The incongruity of it. Great stuff Tom.Love it. The incongruity of it. Great stuff Tom.Jonathan Chanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03647746685252448938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-91293469696127816432013-03-04T09:48:16.818-08:002013-03-04T09:48:16.818-08:00WB,
I'd give my sceptre for those curls, if I...WB,<br /><br />I'd give my sceptre for those curls, if I could find it.<br /><br /><br />And if our friend David Lehman has as we suspect a history of Yankee fanhood, this back-channel tribute to Nora's artistry shows the characteristic grace in defeat of that noble clan (!!) for which Vic Raschi once toiled: <br /><br />"Dear Tom,<br /><br />"I love the poetry comic centering on your baseball classicism. To go five for five against Vic Raschi and the Yankees was no mean feat. (And I would say so in your comment field if I knew how to do it.)<br /><br />"David"<br /><br />By the by, it really was the case that, along about the Middle Mesozoic Period, I received a postcard from that guy who said Vic Raschi was his neighborhood liquor dealer, Vic knew about the poem and all was definitely copasetic on all fronts. Those were the days.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-17445443544513765462013-03-04T08:06:38.328-08:002013-03-04T08:06:38.328-08:00The beard and curls in the first frame suit you ve...The beard and curls in the first frame suit you very well, TC. I like Eurydice in the last frame too; she could take a few teeth out with that bat.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-25983195933809181262013-03-04T07:35:31.609-08:002013-03-04T07:35:31.609-08:00Nin,
Yes, we got a huge kick out of it here. Or w...Nin,<br /><br />Yes, we got a huge kick out of it here. Or wrong metaphor -- out of the park!<br /><br />Very sweet of you to leave kind words for Nora, in particular as, in the genre of poetry comics, You Are (of course) Legend.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-31061502336961594032013-03-04T06:17:36.745-08:002013-03-04T06:17:36.745-08:00Quelle surprise! Our extremely talented (and kind,...Quelle surprise! Our extremely talented (and kind, obviously) friend, the noted classical scholar, houseboat-captain and poetry-comic artist-supreme Nora, has just made my day. Make that week...er, year... well, honestly, century.<br /><br />This poem (and of course its author), and for that matter Vic Raschi as well, come from a remote epoch. Attic Period, evidently.<br /><br />By the by, Nora and I had a brief exchange, not excluding Vic from the conversation, in an antediluvian posting of this poem, which also has a picture of Vic -- not to mention a picture of Eurydice (and her Orpheus).<br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/baseball-and-classicism.html" rel="nofollow">Baseball and Classicism</a><br /><br />But I love this new version, it's much superior in every way. And that Eurydice! She does look as though she could make somebody a top-notch cleanup hitter.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com