tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post6379754002705044959..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Wallace Stevens: The Snow ManUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-64217985500117731052010-11-26T06:16:46.013-08:002010-11-26T06:16:46.013-08:00Para visitar San Martín una vez antes de que me co...Para visitar San Martín una vez antes de que me convirtió en "la nada que es" (o "la nada que no sea"): esta es mi gran deseo!TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-57949025122030616572010-11-26T05:18:22.914-08:002010-11-26T05:18:22.914-08:00Sí, claro que estuve en San Martín. Aunque la últi...Sí, claro que estuve en San Martín. Aunque la última vez fue hace ya más de 15 años. Espero volver pronto.<br />Nice to meet you too!Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16419101761966668410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-54945193134093689342010-11-24T20:40:24.357-08:002010-11-24T20:40:24.357-08:00Every season has its charm, Julia. Have you ever b...Every season has its charm, Julia. Have you ever been here in San Martín? It is very nice to meet you =)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-64642673414018344752010-11-24T07:42:14.083-08:002010-11-24T07:42:14.083-08:00Of course I know about Lucy's blog, I've a...Of course I know about Lucy's blog, I've already been there thanks to yours.<br />That's why I know she lives in San Martín de los Andes... a beautiful place all year long (but for me, summer is the best)Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16419101761966668410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-2923359167310184002010-11-24T06:25:04.910-08:002010-11-24T06:25:04.910-08:00When I look at this picture, Julia, all the adult ...When I look at this picture, Julia, all the adult disappears and for a moment I'm a child again.<br /><br />"My heart leaps..." as Wordsworth once wrote.<br /><br />Yes, Lucy lives in the pristine land of snows and deep lakes inhabited by mythic creatures from prehistory.<br /><br />This time of year I'm sure it's very beautiful there.<br /><br />(Her blog is Locos por naufragar, on the list of links here... she has many photos, poems & c. to make us almost feel we are in Patagonia...)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-73236180346354726582010-11-24T05:20:44.815-08:002010-11-24T05:20:44.815-08:00Wonderful, thak you for that! I specially like the...Wonderful, thak you for that! I specially like the last verse.<br /><br />Tom, Lucy lives in one of the prettiest places of Argentina. <br />Y conoce bien la nieve ¿no?Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16419101761966668410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-53546850046325642522010-11-24T05:13:55.750-08:002010-11-24T05:13:55.750-08:00ohhhh that furry belly!! I loooove this picture!!
...ohhhh that furry belly!! I loooove this picture!!<br />Said that, now I'm going to read the words as if were an adult...Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16419101761966668410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-91561031343757270202010-01-01T00:25:27.005-08:002010-01-01T00:25:27.005-08:00Aditya,
As the full moon appears through clouds i...Aditya,<br /><br />As the full moon appears through clouds in the first minutes of the new decade, and in the distance there are muffled sounds of explosions that must be part of someone's celebrations, and now and then a car whooshes past, and then again the night falls silent, I believe I can hear, in these light tappings of the keys, the echo of the voice of my friend you. Almost... which is of course always much better than not at all. <br /><br />Thanks as always for your poet's words, I'll come visit soon.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-34797556429762138862009-12-31T13:02:47.845-08:002009-12-31T13:02:47.845-08:00Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same ...Full of the same wind<br />That is blowing in the same bare place For the listener, who listens in the snow,<br />And, nothing himself, beholds<br />Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is. <br /><br /><br />At 3 in the night of now, such words are such a joy to read. When you are at one with the peace. With the calm. Almost.<br /><br /> Tapping of the keyboard bre(a)k(e)s the silence, a little. <br /><br />A joy to read this one Tom.adityahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16078144194220301083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-9641148092801296372009-12-26T05:38:29.746-08:002009-12-26T05:38:29.746-08:00Annie,
"... full of the desire to find conne...Annie,<br /><br />"... full of the desire to find connection, even if it's with nothing, which is everything."<br /><br /><br />This is a proposition which rings truer every day. <br /><br />Thanks for connecting... (snow men appreciate the company).TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-41136094056813020162009-12-25T21:08:22.219-08:002009-12-25T21:08:22.219-08:00I agree with Angelica, brave, beautiful and true, ...I agree with Angelica, brave, beautiful and true, diese miezekatze wird geneckt! Although I may be speaking as the osmosis-drenched mutha of a 16-year-old with a mind somewhere other than winter...<br /><br />This Stevens poem is full of the desire to find connection, even if it's with nothing, which is everything. This is a proposition that, as memory serves, many find strangely threatening, whether the poem's imagery evokes Stevens' barren snowscape or the high desert...so even though my arthritic bones and general orientation tend to shun the cold, I feel at home with the Snow Man. Thanks for this gift, Tom, among the many you bestow.<br /><br />Nollaig Shona agus Athbhliain faoi Mhaise Daoibh, <br />ÁineAnnienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-80383084327187401122009-12-25T12:42:55.679-08:002009-12-25T12:42:55.679-08:00have good holidays! thanks for your words!have good holidays! thanks for your words!gamefacedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16562522181852339258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-52321155704728299782009-12-25T07:35:16.802-08:002009-12-25T07:35:16.802-08:00Beautiful poem Tom, how good to find it here on Ch...Beautiful poem Tom, how good to find it here on Christmas morning (!) when I looked to see what you might have writ. Ah, true, "One must have a mind of winter" (now), and now the days will be getting longer, more light (for a while at least!). . . .<br /><br />Cheers to you ---<br /><br />12.25<br /><br />red-orange of sky on horizon above still<br />dark tree, silver of planet above branch<br />in foreground, sound of waves in channel<br /><br /> obscure, because where does<br /> truth come to light<br /><br /> think of sun, line of light,<br /> the top of the roof<br /><br />blue-white of cloud reflected in channel,<br />white half moon above sunlit green ridgeSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-25887384910226379482009-12-25T01:17:21.910-08:002009-12-25T01:17:21.910-08:00Great poem you shared with us, thank for that tom....Great poem you shared with us, thank for that tom.<br />It is really well written, amazingly so, it captures really well the scent of snow.<br />Happy Xmas my friend!Mariana Sofferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13351209522681966230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-191504690055766612009-12-24T22:00:34.236-08:002009-12-24T22:00:34.236-08:00What Wallace Stevens needed for cheer, perhaps, wa...What Wallace Stevens needed for cheer, perhaps, was a warm breeze from Patagonia and a snow-dancing cat.<br /><br />(Even as I say that, as if conjured, the largest and most obstreporous and ungainly of our gang of furs has clambered down over the pile of scarves that simulates my head, and thence onto the keyboard, causing a spill of "2"s, as 22222..) <br /><br />I had convinced myself this wonderful cat in the photo was leaping to attempt to catch a snowflake; however the wise Lady of the Dilapidated Manor, who is never wrong, opines that cats are not so silly as that, and that someone has dangled a lure, most likely a savoury Kitty Treat, above the frame... <br /><br />(It's German snow, by the way.)<br /><br />Anyway, what better occasion than to say, Leigh, Otto, Lucy, George, Zeph, Charlie and Zev, you have all been brilliant sustaining friends of this humble blog, and we here in the feline igloo wish each of you the warmest and most pleasant of holidays (and the same to those christmas ghosts... why is it they seem so familiar?).TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-43624429069461448942009-12-24T20:33:57.214-08:002009-12-24T20:33:57.214-08:00christmas eve (ghosts of nyc past
in the soft
col...christmas eve (ghosts of nyc past<br /><br />in the soft<br />cold evening of ghostly<br />new york<br />all the citizens and characters<br />bump and tumble <br />into each other<br />down subways and out<br />store doors<br />feeling their<br />joyous anxious way <br />they slip into the holy<br />anonymity of treasures<br />and pain that they find at home<br />or on the streets. <br />in the morning the ghosts are gone again. <br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-7326474559055100122009-12-24T19:48:11.370-08:002009-12-24T19:48:11.370-08:00Merry Christmas to all on the TC
Blog, a delightfu...Merry Christmas to all on the TC<br />Blog, a delightful place of being<br /><br />Cold in the snow?<br /><br />What does kitty know?<br /><br />Something about Wallace Stevens<br /><br />and how to stay even.Charlie Vermontnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-75731320072305146442009-12-24T15:42:51.066-08:002009-12-24T15:42:51.066-08:00There's not much joyful in the universe, it se...There's not much joyful in the universe, it seems, but that cat has found some joy and is expressing it all over its furry self. What a heartening sight it is!Zephirinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02809525772159756122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-12569802740556466852009-12-24T15:34:18.531-08:002009-12-24T15:34:18.531-08:00"Nothing that is not there and the nothing th..."Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is." All there is to say. A wonderful poem for the day, Tom. Thanks for saying so much with so few syllables every day for us to share. A wonderful blog. And now back to visiting relatives. . . .George Mattinglyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11844284835653397986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-13401261363637562842009-12-24T15:21:01.872-08:002009-12-24T15:21:01.872-08:00Merry Christmas :)
A warm breeze from Patagonia a...Merry Christmas :)<br /><br />A warm breeze from Patagonia and all the affection from my heart for you and Angelica.<br /><br />XXAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-33643051439436352162009-12-24T13:29:48.425-08:002009-12-24T13:29:48.425-08:00Just what I needed to read tonight. Thanks :)Just what I needed to read tonight. Thanks :)~otto~http://www.ottomattiq.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-34701805086900174582009-12-24T12:51:19.733-08:002009-12-24T12:51:19.733-08:00Thanks for sharing this Tom - excellent!Thanks for sharing this Tom - excellent!.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00532376301529981186noreply@blogger.com