tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post5780921582051228929..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Robert Herrick: SilksUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-21271290830323685212013-05-22T16:19:15.713-07:002013-05-22T16:19:15.713-07:00This reminds me of a book I quite enjoyed reading,...This reminds me of a book I quite enjoyed reading, Silk (Alessandro Baricco). I don't know if the English translation is a good one, though. <br />An anti-scratchy, very lovely way to start the day, I agree.Marie Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07787850063283960703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-10871460068746603122010-04-22T04:09:59.911-07:002010-04-22T04:09:59.911-07:00(And Don, speaking of Herrick and mornings, here i...(And Don, speaking of Herrick and mornings, <a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/robert-herrick-comming-of-good-luck.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> is his lovely little day-is-breaking-by-degrees good-luck charm. It has a definite lilliputian Issa-oid joy to it, I think you might agree.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-40909253435888560422010-04-22T04:05:18.718-07:002010-04-22T04:05:18.718-07:00Thanks Don.
And yes, one suspects that in Robin ...Thanks Don. <br /><br />And yes, one suspects that in Robin Herrick's day and world there may have been so many (more) ways a Vibration might seem free.<br /><br />(I love his invention of "liquefaction" for the occasion, by the way. He was one of those poets, like Hardy, who were never afraid, when the right word was not to be found in the existing kit, to just go ahead and invent it. The OED is full of Herrick's apparent first-time-round usages. And unlike some of Hardy's, these of Herrick's almost always seem to my ear "natural", as if the language, rather than the poet, were calling them into being: words that were always meant to exist, and were merely waiting patiently for the poet to come along and summon them from potentiality into poetic actuality.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-29852959954020554062010-04-22T03:31:14.152-07:002010-04-22T03:31:14.152-07:00"That brave Vibration each way free"
Th..."That brave Vibration each way free"<br /><br />Thanks, Tom, a lovely way to start the day.Issa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-34032418172093478752010-04-21T08:22:36.029-07:002010-04-21T08:22:36.029-07:00Thanks, friends.
Yes, the challenge and the fun h...Thanks, friends.<br /><br />Yes, the challenge and the fun here came in the attempt to find a happy (and unexpected) collision (or shall I say communion?) of elements, image and words.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-54375262405034442602010-04-21T07:52:38.777-07:002010-04-21T07:52:38.777-07:00Tom,
Yes, the beauty of Julia's silks in the...Tom, <br /><br />Yes, the beauty of Julia's silks in the West (Herrick's Hesperides) and Master Chang Hsuan's in the East. . . .STEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-62811222068219939922010-04-21T06:33:20.648-07:002010-04-21T06:33:20.648-07:00It would be good to see the Museum of Fine Arts, B...It would be good to see the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, pair this image with these words. They go together so well.Curtis Robertsnoreply@blogger.com