tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post8985352390378673730..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Alba Marina (After Malaparte)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-70343437803958708122010-10-19T09:49:33.189-07:002010-10-19T09:49:33.189-07:00Beautiful.Beautiful.Chickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14883803556110223535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-91565023256650535682010-10-19T02:44:48.801-07:002010-10-19T02:44:48.801-07:00Several flights up I am moved reading the poem. At...Several flights up I am moved reading the poem. At work. Words. No less. No more. Great poem.<br /><br />and always <br />. <br />.adityahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16078144194220301083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-59597073360916692892010-10-18T18:18:45.142-07:002010-10-18T18:18:45.142-07:00Robb, I am moved to have moved you, at work no les...Robb, I am moved to have moved you, at work no less. <br /><br />John, yes, good scary was the intended tenor. (My inner contralto seems to have been put out of action by shrapnel.)<br /><br />Curtis, yes, one imagines Malaparte's classical sonorities vocalized by night, perhaps in the open air natural amphitheatre situation created by one of those volcanic craters. Just so long as it wasn't erupting at the time (as Stromboli is wont to do).<br /><br />About the beauty of the locales, those were my thoughts too... can't think of a more beautiful set of places in which to endure internal exile. Stark, austere, grand. Though again, Stromboli... one recalls that Rossellini film (Stromboli, Terra del Dio) in which he makes Ingrid Bergman toil her way up that bleak mountain of hot cinders. The tremendous natural symbolism of the volcano pretty much overwhelms the film's rather delicate story. And I must say, what a way to treat your magnificent main squeeze. As Stephen's charming golden-crowned song sparrow might say, Oh dear! <br /><br />But while thinking about it a bit, I must also say the fishing sequence in the film is unforgettable. <br /><br />(Alberto Moravia, by the way, wrote a novel in which a thinly disguised version of Malaparte seems to be taking his exile rather comfortably, "strolling about the beach with his women," etc. My first thought about that -- knowing a bit about writers -- was: Moravia was jealous!)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-34358425876112565262010-10-18T14:34:45.290-07:002010-10-18T14:34:45.290-07:00I would love to hear this read aloud.
I've ...I would love to hear this read aloud. <br /><br />I've just spent some time reading about the Aeolian Islands, which I've never visited. Although I wouldn't want to be a prisoner there (or anywhere), they do look amazing in these photos and seem to be incredibly beautiful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-56726822592619630512010-10-18T13:57:42.740-07:002010-10-18T13:57:42.740-07:00This is frightening in the best possible wayThis is frightening in the best possible wayJohn B-Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01041221232768939991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-88296313611449488732010-10-18T12:15:41.043-07:002010-10-18T12:15:41.043-07:00Tom, this moved me -- at work no less. Beautiful. ...Tom, this moved me -- at work no less. Beautiful. Metax.Robbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12312524900784740898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-9509349833881066372010-10-18T08:14:36.769-07:002010-10-18T08:14:36.769-07:00(By the way, re. the "setting" here: as ...(By the way, re. the "setting" here: as a result of his penchant for getting on the nerves of those in power, Malaparte spent much of the 1930s in exile and house-arrest in various remote spots... "Fughe in prigione" -- "flight in prison" -- plays ironically against the expectation of "flight from prison"... the milieu here is the isle of Lipari, in the chain of volcanic isles off the north coast of Sicily, the Aeolian archipelago...)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-87471204916234916862010-10-18T08:06:26.041-07:002010-10-18T08:06:26.041-07:00Lovely, Steve.
All I can say to your golden-crown...Lovely, Steve.<br /><br />All I can say to your golden-crowned sparrow is: <br /><br />you said it. <br /><br />(A spot of blue poking through cloud, as that is said...)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-35944719452664973792010-10-18T07:50:35.019-07:002010-10-18T07:50:35.019-07:00Tom,
Yes, beautiful, picture and words and pictur...Tom,<br /><br />Yes, beautiful, picture and words and picture. Sun just now coming up above eucalyptus on southeast edge of Mesa, move southward now at a rather alarmingly rapid rate ("oh dear me"). . . .<br /><br /><br />10.18<br /><br />light coming into sky above still black<br />ridge, golden-crowned sparrow’s dear me<br />in foreground, wave sounding in channel<br /><br /> approaches constructing form,<br /> surface refraction of<br /><br /> descriptive term parallel to<br /> it, not that, picture<br /><br />grey-white clouds reflected in channel,<br />shadowed green pine on tip of sandspitSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-78674095526399017622010-10-18T06:38:41.678-07:002010-10-18T06:38:41.678-07:00Thanks, Don. Sixth sense. This one had you in mind...Thanks, Don. Sixth sense. This one had you in mind.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-25463287202123952542010-10-18T06:20:09.809-07:002010-10-18T06:20:09.809-07:00Beautiful, Tom.Beautiful, Tom.Issa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.com