tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post8783523913173254862..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: A Punch in the Face for Free Speech (It Can Happen Here) / Robert Creeley: America: "Give back / what we are" (13 Poems) / bobsan88: MiddlemarchUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-27972272996969714712017-04-29T08:54:09.735-07:002017-04-29T08:54:09.735-07:00Congratulations, brave Woodman and Mrs. Woodman!Congratulations, brave Woodman and Mrs. Woodman!TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-24433338187883716832017-04-29T01:51:05.772-07:002017-04-29T01:51:05.772-07:00Having lived with these words throughout my adult ...Having lived with these words throughout my adult life, no surprise the ones that jumped out, "this is Robert Creeley speaking." On the occasion of our 44th anniversary in the Woodman household, we thank you Tom Clark for this gift.kenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12448791356455016794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-15924284725130918262017-04-28T20:47:41.955-07:002017-04-28T20:47:41.955-07:00Thank you, Jasper. I expect you will be able to fa...Thank you, Jasper. I expect you will be able to fathom some sense of the scale of the job. Exhausting, but once begun with something, if the something is of value, there can be no turning back, as I'm sure you also understand. It may be hard to hold in the mind at any single moment all the things that seem to be converging upon the instant meaning of the present. These latter years moreover it has seemed more difficult than ever to sort those things, as we flail and flounder along in the accumulating dark. For me RC's work has remained a beacon, through all this. The memorial function of poetry, to keep the memory green, is also, to my mind, very close to the principal duty of the living now, if anything of value is to remain.<br /><br />Through much of the labour here, by the way, the sky overhead was abuzz with circulating police helicopters, monitoring the latest proto fascist invasion of our entirely undeserving little town. We are now unwilling host to ambitious grifter thugs from all over, like the charming young fellow seen at the top of his post, who has become, unbelievably as one might have thought, a hero to those for whom hate is value. Nowhere to hide... and America, we have nowhere but you to be. TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-749258550393042162017-04-28T13:51:13.514-07:002017-04-28T13:51:13.514-07:00Thank you for the work and heart that went into th...Thank you for the work and heart that went into this moving tribute.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01536829247347080419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-86699071231664804852017-04-28T09:38:24.580-07:002017-04-28T09:38:24.580-07:00Thanks, Sandra, glad you like.Thanks, Sandra, glad you like.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-39425748959346310592017-04-28T08:49:55.859-07:002017-04-28T08:49:55.859-07:00wonderful poems and photos..."Generous life&q...wonderful poems and photos..."Generous life"....the title wins !Sandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15053707892868584990noreply@blogger.com