tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post8084395468901340200..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Edward Dorn: The 6thUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-26100470498375933402010-06-02T08:58:30.647-07:002010-06-02T08:58:30.647-07:00Yes, bracing.
Likewise hearing from you always pe...Yes, bracing.<br /><br />Likewise hearing from you always perks me up, Marcia.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-51283424615226775982010-06-02T07:12:37.634-07:002010-06-02T07:12:37.634-07:00Thank you, Tom, reading Dorn made my day.Thank you, Tom, reading Dorn made my day.Marciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17150292834089323928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-68756130438014481932010-03-27T02:25:25.966-07:002010-03-27T02:25:25.966-07:00There's a bit more on Ed's traveling eye h...There's a bit more on Ed's traveling eye <a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/for-edward-dorn.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> and <a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/for-edward-dorn-ii-wind-river-canyon-in.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-33027798487631330242010-03-26T09:08:19.956-07:002010-03-26T09:08:19.956-07:00Curtis,
Yes, you've accurately and eloquently...Curtis,<br /><br />Yes, you've accurately and eloquently summed up the singularity of this great writer.<br /><br />One of a kind, his like won't come again... at least not any time soon.<br /><br />Inspecting the landforms of the west in his company was an opportunity and an education I will never forget. With his intent squinting gaze he saw not only the shapes of things at the surface but the backstory that lay behind and below.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-19613684285286112812010-03-26T08:07:59.152-07:002010-03-26T08:07:59.152-07:00Dorn's Emersonian dignity is always there unde...Dorn's Emersonian dignity is always there underneath his frequent sarcasm and frustration. He stands in awe of the visionary Western extent. Even at his most flippant and cynical (as in Yellow Lola, for instance,) it is a love of freedom and the integrity of his own mind that ultimately stand out. <br /><br />Dorn was a wonderful writer.Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-19879721320377598412010-03-26T02:49:05.284-07:002010-03-26T02:49:05.284-07:00Otto,
That's it exactly, with Dorn. Absolutel...Otto,<br /><br />That's it exactly, with Dorn. Absolutely his own singular and resistant voice, flowing with things, and then cutting back against the grain to remind us that the truth of feeling is never simple, nor easily come by.<br /><br />I will never forget my impression of that uniquely credible voice, nearly fifty years ago, upon first reading this passage:<br /><br />That afternoon with our backs resting<br />against the vertical rocks there were... well I had to follow<br />him there, to know land and love it, is a great thing few<br />people are as lost as I am. And I love this man because he loves Idaho.<br />He wanted me to build a house somewhere near and I wanted to<br />but he you see, lives in a closed world but is very damn kind,<br />he is very great I like him more than it is easy to say<br />and it wasn't easy to disappoint him, but I think he knew,<br />he went on anyway describing the possibilities, that's love,<br />in the mists of indifference. But I just can't build houses.<br />At all. Although I dig the juniper and think the hills swing,<br />you know how very much my world is not closed but open, open.<br />Everywhere I am, I feel I am everywhere else.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-89184058258499436022010-03-25T14:12:34.892-07:002010-03-25T14:12:34.892-07:00There is something about Dorn that hits me in plac...There is something about Dorn that hits me in places I'm not used to being hit. His lines are so smoth and clean but twist and turn at the same time.~otto~https://www.blogger.com/profile/08859835662556335529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-19666080462346072752010-03-25T06:46:52.800-07:002010-03-25T06:46:52.800-07:00And thank you, Bill and Dale.
Steve,
Heroic of y...And thank you, Bill and Dale.<br /><br />Steve,<br /><br />Heroic of you to maintain the distinctions of shadow and reflection at this great distance. <br /><br />Seems the channels travel pretty well after all, west to east, east to west -- as ever you have given us to<br /><br />see the exact spot...TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-11311285618389368142010-03-25T05:20:21.587-07:002010-03-25T05:20:21.587-07:00Tom,
Thanks for this -- flew over miles/hours of ...Tom,<br /><br />Thanks for this -- flew over miles/hours of whiteness (snow on hills/mountains of Idaho (?) and Wyoming (?) and Nebraska (?) and onward until it got dark -- what contrast to the green we're seeing now. And here we are, a now half sunlit, half shadowed pale green wall across the street. . . .<br /><br />3.25<br /><br />silver circle of sun rising into cloudless<br />blue sky, still shadowed pale green wall<br />in foreground, sound of cars in street<br /><br /> physical concept in the way<br /> “thing,” corresponding<br /><br /> meaning, see the exact spot,<br /> stays still on surface<br /><br />grey-white clouds reflected in channel,<br />shadowed green of ridge across from itSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-84269769242143477142010-03-24T22:58:37.519-07:002010-03-24T22:58:37.519-07:00Tom, this is wonderful--thanks.... DSTom, this is wonderful--thanks.... DSDalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13285558511682553411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-48041766332383948282010-03-24T19:11:43.530-07:002010-03-24T19:11:43.530-07:00Great stuff..Great stuff..bill shermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04168365468808561496noreply@blogger.com