tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post2052594076244107466..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Some Wild West ShowsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-26967368772460706462011-01-11T08:36:47.698-08:002011-01-11T08:36:47.698-08:00Tom,
Thanks for noting the new "midsections&...Tom,<br /><br />Thanks for noting the new "midsections" -- and yes, that wingwalker is really something (wait till Johnny sees THAT!). . . .STEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-37560929609897362652011-01-11T06:53:56.976-08:002011-01-11T06:53:56.976-08:00Tom
this is "write-on!"
&qu...Tom<br /> this is "write-on!"<br /><br />"Ed, every time I hear this out of you --"<br />hell,<br />for nigh-on-toseventyyears<br /><br />I've been writing the SAME phriching poem!<br /><br />one of these days I'll get "it" reight...<br /><br />you wanna know what I've found <br />upon this re:turn?<br /><br />I'll tell you. MOST of my friend-poets are DEAD!<br /><br />so I re-connected with one of them in 1998.<br /> He said "your name rings-a-bell" &<br /><br />"what the hell are you & what are you doing ...anyway?"<br /><br />so I shot him back this "shortie" :<br /><br />searching the stars<br />for intelligent life<br />so little of it here<br /><br /><br />well<br /><br />anyway<br /><br />now to sink into/with JM's 'a lamp'<br />before my morning nap.Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-26121731123645438182011-01-11T05:52:59.339-08:002011-01-11T05:52:59.339-08:00Ed, every time I hear this out of you --
anyway l...Ed, every time I hear this out of you --<br /><br />anyway long about 1975 I got bored with The Poetry Scene<br /><br />and dropped out..<br /><br />now that I am "back"<br /><br />Poetry is STILL boring....<br />just more of it!<br /><br />-- I just have to laugh and credit you with having had the good sense, for all those years, to absent yourself from... well, virtually Nothing.<br /><br /><br />___<br /><br /><br />Don,<br /><br />Well, I guess we are left to construct our mythologies as we find them. Six guns probably were never going to provide much a foundation. Except for the cemetery.<br /><br />I too got my start with Cummings, as I bet many did.<br /><br />The first examples of a "modern poem", available to everybody -- this one and others like it, by the same poet.<br /><br />(Who's been "outgrown" prematurely, alas, like so much that still holds value.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-35563983320720470772011-01-11T04:49:57.205-08:002011-01-11T04:49:57.205-08:00The Cummings may be one of the first poems of his ...The Cummings may be one of the first poems of his I ran into and it ran me over. Probably a school book anthology, but this poem is very possibly where it all started for me, his complete poems being the first poetry book I bought (and devoured) for myself.<br /><br />I was always struck by Dylan's seeming allusion to the poem in Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall ... "my blue-eyed son," which I was probably listening to at the same time.<br /><br />Between "We Use Summer Oils" and the blessing by Pope Leo, it seems commercialism has always been with us ... Bill Cody knew all about that, of course.<br /><br />I remember Joseph Campbell talking about museum exhibits and traveling shows like Buffalo Bill's were the start for him on his anthropological / mythological quest as a young boy.Issa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-75730298482529394022011-01-10T10:31:01.873-08:002011-01-10T10:31:01.873-08:00the name "Frank Moore"
sure sounds fa...the name "Frank Moore"<br /> sure sounds familiar...<br /><br />almost<br /><br />"rings a belle"<br /><br />anyway long about 1975 I got bored with The Poetry Scene<br /><br />and dropped out..<br /><br />now that I am "back"<br /><br />Poetry is STILL boring....<br />just more of it!<br /><br /><br /><br />MOORE? MOORE?<br /><br />am I confusing YOUR Moore <br />w Clayton Moore?<br /> more-or-less<br /><br /><br />I liked & yet so do<br /><br />Howard Nemrov's "stuff"<br /><br />and Howard Nemrov.Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-36002928198470675212011-01-10T10:24:26.275-08:002011-01-10T10:24:26.275-08:00Of course RF was a significant figure in the littl...Of course RF was a significant figure in the little "Pound circle" in D.C.... I know this goes back in your own history, too, Ed.<br /><br />Interesting zone to consider.<br /><br />When I was working on Olson, the one person from that orbit who proved quite helpful in painting the local scene was Frank Moore -- "the Librarian" of Olson's poem so-titled ("Who is/Frank Moore...").<br /><br />But that as they say is another story.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-9390375175084104232011-01-10T10:02:15.071-08:002011-01-10T10:02:15.071-08:00Leo must have "had the hots" for Annie O...Leo must have "had the hots" for Annie Oakley <br /><br />and<br />re: Rudd Fleming<br /><br />I for some reason checked your index in Allegory of a<br />Poet's Life and THERE<br /><br />on page 116 is "Rudd Fleming" !Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-72049689406483291872011-01-10T09:57:17.630-08:002011-01-10T09:57:17.630-08:00By the way, maybe it's just that I'm feeli...By the way, maybe it's just that I'm feeling a bit giddy (too much enforced invalidism, and currently "coming down with something" -- i.e. something unwanted) -- but is it just me who's wondering exactly what it was about Buffalo Bill that Leo XII considered worthy of a papal blessing??TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-29065176070148818422011-01-10T09:53:36.154-08:002011-01-10T09:53:36.154-08:00Love these new beautifully luminous midsections, S...Love these new beautifully luminous midsections, Steve -- the wing walker walking on water?<br /><br /><br />Ed, three is pretty quick, but then... can't blame you, I've been to Cody.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-42281350534505514572011-01-10T09:50:44.839-08:002011-01-10T09:50:44.839-08:00go to Cody, Whyyoming!
in 1959 I pulled into a sp...go to Cody, Whyyoming!<br /><br />in 1959 I pulled into a space in the square and<br />slept in the back seat of my Chevy with<br /><br />"what's her name'<br /><br />they got a Cody Cowboy Museum there ... or did.<br /><br />we never went in as<br />this cop woke us up at down and gave us 10 mins to<br /><br />"get outta town"<br /><br />we did it in 3!Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-24159958086485403562011-01-10T08:38:59.165-08:002011-01-10T08:38:59.165-08:00Tom,
The Wild West still lives on, in the Denver ...Tom,<br /><br />The Wild West still lives on, in the Denver Public Library at least (I'm going there on Wednesday, "to see what he could see"). . . .<br /><br /><br />1.10<br /><br />pink cloud in pale blue sky above still<br />shadowed ridge, motionless green leaves <br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> lights still up on tree, as<br /> pattern of reflection<br /><br /> in window beside it, bright <br /> Dog Star, frogs still<br /><br />silver of sunlight reflected in channel,<br />shadowed green canyon of ridge above itSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.com