tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post644080599972582134..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Jim Dine: My Letter to the TroopsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-43109435163722334592015-03-08T22:47:41.695-07:002015-03-08T22:47:41.695-07:00In case it doesn't totally go without saying, ...In case it doesn't totally go without saying, there are a lot of poems in this giant poem of Jim's, and a lot of meanings, Jim's, yours, mine -- and he's open to all of them, of course.<br /><br />Sometimes an incorrect educated guess is the only thing that will get you through the night.<br /><br />Had stubbornly thought maybe somebody would get up the nerve to pip a squeak about the poem, think it's great, hate it, have a feeling, one way or another, as in -- whatever, like, don't like, am confused by, but -- dream on, old timer.<br /><br />Pretty obvious that at least the hosts here (okay, boring old people, but we get to think things too, nothing so smart as the thoughts of the idiot young, but still) were impressed, honoured, grateful.<br /><br />The psychogeographic mapping power, gestural energy and emotional drive of the thing, remarkable.<br /><br />To entertain the weird idea that poems should mean or say anything at all about anything real, or have anything at all real buried within them, or should deserve and earn and receive actual serious attention, before being filed under whatever idle categorical predisposition, is, of itself, a sort of violation of the current way of things -- too demanding, like. To be serious, to mean something, to admit to and attempt to honestly articulate strong feeling -- total no-no's nowadays, ask any ambitious junior professor anywhere.<br /><br />Just saying.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-49102255674452828972015-03-08T19:36:35.261-07:002015-03-08T19:36:35.261-07:00Thanks Tom, got it!Thanks Tom, got it!TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-83656566397556206902015-03-08T09:06:20.000-07:002015-03-08T09:06:20.000-07:00Dear Tom, Always good to read Jim. See your re...Dear Tom, Always good to read Jim. See your regular email for relevant picture. love, TomTom Raworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01917743465756906412noreply@blogger.com