tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post3799557864264795029..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: The Elysian Fields: Trodden UponUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-9683301684072768942011-09-30T06:25:36.485-07:002011-09-30T06:25:36.485-07:00The best myths only get better when poetically re-...The best myths only get better when poetically re-written.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-13336686330999693442011-09-29T14:49:16.364-07:002011-09-29T14:49:16.364-07:00well now that we are talking of Orpheus
Here is Ja...well now that we are talking of Orpheus<br />Here is Jack's poem:<br /><br />ORPHEUS IN<br />GREENWICH VILLAGE<br /><br />What if Orpheus,<br />confident in the hard-<br />found mastery,<br />should go down into Hell?<br />Out of the clean light down?<br />And then, surrounded<br />by the closing beasts<br />and readying his lyre,<br />should notice, suddenly,<br />they had now ears?<br /><br />this out of my hard-backed copy of<br />the 1962 VIEWS OF JEOPARDY<br />that I picked up for $1<br />around 1965 on a table at a U of Md library<br />book sale ...Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-12564003320009778442011-09-29T14:35:12.996-07:002011-09-29T14:35:12.996-07:00No. Orpheus did never looked back and is happily e...No. Orpheus did never looked back and is happily enjoying his life with Eurydice. No tears, here.Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16419101761966668410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-7809795059663124782011-09-29T09:42:23.021-07:002011-09-29T09:42:23.021-07:00Julia, do you suppose that big stain on the bronze...Julia, do you suppose that big stain on the bronze plaque could be a congealed tear of Orpheus?TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-10468155603786438392011-09-29T06:02:03.332-07:002011-09-29T06:02:03.332-07:00I love it, Tom!
Hago mías las palabras de Curtis....I love it, Tom! <br />Hago mías las palabras de Curtis...<br />I love the poem but specially your dedication. <br />Long live to wise Eurydices!Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16419101761966668410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-87266365349485128822011-09-28T09:59:03.379-07:002011-09-28T09:59:03.379-07:00Thanks very much, friends. Yes, they are smarter n...Thanks very much, friends. Yes, they are smarter now. I suspect they are reading our signs. Even when we are not flashing any. Brad, that's a pretty good on-base percentage.<br /><br />JK, what a grandstand gallery! It looks like <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/107016037887630884274/HESIODSMUSES#5655842814624763810" rel="nofollow">Orpheus may have more on his hands than he can handle</a>. <br /><br />(Did she steal those pan pipes from Manny Ramirez?)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-14534401394482023372011-09-28T07:53:50.976-07:002011-09-28T07:53:50.976-07:00Tom,
What a great remembrance of things "10,...Tom,<br /><br />What a great remembrance of things "10,000 years ago" (can it be?), the morning Eurydice returned to corner of Nymph and Cherry (just over there, once upon a time) from "the roadside postal box" (also once upon a time) with a card from Conesus (RE: "Baseball and Classicism" and the "neighborhood liquor dealer, Vic Raschi" -- who "loved it!") . . . .<br /><br />9.28<br /><br />light coming into sky above still black<br />plane of ridge, red-tailed hawk calling <br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> further consequence of this,<br /> which is connected to<br /><br /> present motion, having seen<br /> that, how such can be<br /><br />silver of sunlight reflected in channel,<br />cloudless blue sky above green of ridgeSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-5557166423885912122011-09-27T18:33:03.009-07:002011-09-27T18:33:03.009-07:00J'ai perdu mon Eurydice
Rien n'égale mon m...J'ai perdu mon Eurydice<br />Rien n'égale mon malheur<br />Sort cruel! quelle rigueur!<br />Rien n'égale mon malheur!<br />Je succombe à ma doleur.Delia Psychehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03020484032408233158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-91509851361873964302011-09-27T17:07:23.663-07:002011-09-27T17:07:23.663-07:00Home run.
"sansi"Home run.<br /><br />"sansi"Robbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12312524900784740898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-24371549724174084362011-09-27T12:30:59.980-07:002011-09-27T12:30:59.980-07:00Here is the scoop on Eurydice and the real Champs-...Here is the scoop on Eurydice and the real Champs-Elysées:<br /><br />https://picasaweb.google.com/107016037887630884274/HESIODSMUSES#jkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03873581317083677431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-75930516691672582152011-09-27T11:37:49.250-07:002011-09-27T11:37:49.250-07:00Everyone is so much smarter now, aren't they? ...Everyone <em>is</em> so much smarter now, aren't they? & are as quick as spontaneous combustion with their intelligence--ill-gotten & earned, though mostly cribbed. Rarely borne from box scores, and rarer still inscribed on plaques. All this ephemeral intelligence being as tiresome as it is dangerous. I would, I think, settle for a 1 for 4 with one walk.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-6732284675792750792011-09-27T11:36:16.974-07:002011-09-27T11:36:16.974-07:00As Willy's was, this one's also a great ca...As Willy's was, this one's also a great catch. Thanks for pitching it again.vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-75371333106498791642011-09-27T10:30:49.368-07:002011-09-27T10:30:49.368-07:00Curtis, true that.
In my own playing days, the on...Curtis, true that.<br /><br />In my own playing days, the only rub was having a glove made of concrete.<br /><br />But Vic Wertz...<br /><br />The mere memory of Vic provides a ray of hope for those whose hair has been rapt away to the Elysian Fields.<br /><br />He had already started to lose it when famously robbed by Willie Mays, he of the silken glove, at the Polo Grounds.<br /><br />Austin Jackson is here today...<br /><br />Wertz is just around the corner.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-35588192152074176262011-09-27T09:54:23.648-07:002011-09-27T09:54:23.648-07:00I got this Currier and Ives picture book
an old bo...I got this Currier and Ives picture book<br />an old book of their prints<br />and<br />in it is a rendering of a B-Ball game on that Elysian Field ..<br /><br />wasn't that where American The Game of Basebal was invented<br /><br />and I do believe that I saw Vic Raschi pitch against the Senators in early to mid 1950's<br /><br /><br />I pick out your:<br /><br /> "on the margins of Nymph Road, just off Cherry ..."<br /><br />(location, location, lo-cation)<br /><br />and<br /><br /> "Eurydice in the Elysian Fields one her perfect day"<br />and<br /> "ingenues everyone must have been"<br /><br />that is one hell-of-a neat poem/stream<br /> and written in concrete !<br />NEAT !<br /><br />ciao..<br /><br />p.s. Vic Wertz was another Vic torEd Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-47373989120899285062011-09-27T09:36:39.602-07:002011-09-27T09:36:39.602-07:00WORLD SERIES PREMONITION
A year ago,
Carting cat...WORLD SERIES PREMONITION <br /><br />A year ago,<br />Carting catered goods <br />Across a threadbare melancholia<br />Of crumbling goodbye ways<br /><br />My distraction opens<br />Upon the grace & speed & timing<br />Austin Jackson performs<br />Over present-day AL outfields <br /><br />That swift figure now <br />Superimposed over Say’s <br />Over-the-shoulder miracle <br />Off the monster bat of Detroit’s <br />Biggest Budweiser distributor –<br /><br />Whoa, hard right<br />I follow the green sign reading,<br />“Vic Wertz Blvd.”kenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12448791356455016794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-22519185376935680892011-09-27T09:33:22.337-07:002011-09-27T09:33:22.337-07:00The poem, prose, pictures and motivating sentiment...The poem, prose, pictures and motivating sentiment are all very beautiful and make me smile broadly. Baseball and classicism do go together, of course, no matter how hard "they" try to ruin things. I was struck also by the police commissioner's remark. When I let things like that slide by, as they inevitably do, I know it's because worse is on the way, just around the corner. Conesus is a great name for a town.ACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.com