tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.comments2023-06-17T04:25:51.988-04:00<center>Living Poetry</center>Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08754785071196846157noreply@blogger.comBlogger657125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.post-7122019093054363602011-09-06T10:34:48.715-04:002011-09-06T10:34:48.715-04:00*Traditional, that is.*Traditional, that is.Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08754785071196846157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.post-17049234158201304292011-09-06T10:26:41.648-04:002011-09-06T10:26:41.648-04:00Looks like a tradition champagne cocktail--champag...Looks like a tradition champagne cocktail--champagne, sugar, bitters, and a twistAmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08754785071196846157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.post-46605308763616710262011-07-08T15:28:31.385-04:002011-07-08T15:28:31.385-04:00what kind of drink is that?
Mobile Poetrywhat kind of drink is that?<br /><a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=com.poetry.android" rel="nofollow">Mobile Poetry</a>Poetry of the Dayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11198064593715494884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.post-42134638540988573562011-05-30T23:05:19.144-04:002011-05-30T23:05:19.144-04:00http://hollydayonwriting.blogspot.com is my blog a...http://hollydayonwriting.blogspot.com is my blog about the being a small press poet in the 80s and 90s.Holly Dayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13195487553112586729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.post-50761454851327792602011-05-12T14:01:15.663-04:002011-05-12T14:01:15.663-04:00Hi Amy,
The questions that you raised in the inte...Hi Amy,<br /><br />The questions that you raised in the interview are salient issues between the poet and his/her poetry. Most often, I read the content of the poem without knowing or considering the author’s personal history. There are poems, however, that I needed to understand the background of the author, particularly biographical and the cultural and political milieu.<br /><br />In general, though, I agree with Bryce that poetry “isn't static, it is an experience. That experience is a combination of what the author has written, and what the reader brings to the piece.” It is dynamic in a sense that the poet writes with such urgency, from the creative surge of passion. The flow of that passion is like an electrical charge to be felt by the reader through a personal encounter with the poem. The completion of a poem can only happen if it is already revealed to the readers. From then on, the poet has no more control after his/her creative work, whether it is understood or misunderstood.<br /><br />On the other hand, it is also important that the reader knows who is the writer and to whom his/her particular poem is addressed to. The ‘consummation’ of creative output can occur only when it is felt and experienced by a particular audience or condition in a society. Although the poet or the reader may not be conscious of the poem’s final cause, it is inherent that any creative piece of work has its own intended recipient in order to complete the poetic revelation of truth.<br /><br />Thank you, Amy, for another enriching topic :)<br /><br />DannyAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07479613153214548166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.post-85453447117313527672011-04-20T11:45:36.327-04:002011-04-20T11:45:36.327-04:00Thanks for your great commentary, Danny. I agree w...Thanks for your great commentary, Danny. I agree with you regarding Bryce's gravity analogy, though I couldn't have stated it as well as you did: empirical vs. phenomenological. <br /><br />As a poet (and a human being) I've always been fascinated with physics, especially how it frames the experience of time and space. It's as if there's a language in physics that helps me go deeper into the poetic language I strive for. Science and art truly complement each other.Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08754785071196846157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.post-17665575127540628892011-04-19T22:29:43.354-04:002011-04-19T22:29:43.354-04:00I can relate with Bryce. Although, I am not a scie...I can relate with Bryce. Although, I am not a scientist, my educational background in philosophy and theology taught me how to be theoretical and logical in reasoning, purely cognitive, which is often bland and boring? But when you contextualize and put emotion on what you are writing either science or philosophy, for me, that is art - creative thinking or writing, like his poem “Laboratory Philosophy,” I can feel the humor and the humanity of the scientist. <br /><br />Bryce’s example of “gravity” between empirical, in the parlance of science, and phenomenological as “part of human condition” is a vivid analogy between art and science. Art goes beyond what science can’t reach in the human ‘sensation.’ <br /><br />Thanks, Amy, for this wonderful piece :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07479613153214548166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.post-30923100677402791062011-04-19T22:22:32.745-04:002011-04-19T22:22:32.745-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07479613153214548166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.post-84729742930167198472011-04-17T18:04:41.271-04:002011-04-17T18:04:41.271-04:00Hey Danny! So glad to hear from you. Thank you for...Hey Danny! So glad to hear from you. Thank you for sharing your poem and website. I am definitely continuing this blog, so I hope to your wonderful, artistic commentary often!<br /><br />AmyAmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08754785071196846157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.post-25509343275992554942011-04-16T22:45:03.036-04:002011-04-16T22:45:03.036-04:00My dear Amy,
I miss you and this usual ‘revelare’...My dear Amy,<br /><br />I miss you and this usual ‘revelare’ or disclosure of poem and its poet. It’s like a workshop to me, I learn a lot of things from this blog. I have grown, too, in my writing and I consider you as one of those influential in the development of my poetry. I still have a long way, though, but I know I’m already on the right direction. <br /><br />I maintain one blog here in blogger.com, the CuadroFilipino, my review of Filipino art. I have my official website: http://dannysillada.weebly.com. <br /><br />I’d like to share my recently published poem in Philippines Free Press (a weekly magazine in our country) titled “The Door of an Abandoned Old House”: http://philippinesfreepress.com.ph/2011/03/26/the-door-of-an-abandoned-old-house/<br /><br />Nice seeing you here again, I hope you’ll continue this very informative discussion on poetry and poets.<br /><br />Best regards,<br />DannyAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07479613153214548166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.post-61190329034296795662011-04-11T13:58:40.637-04:002011-04-11T13:58:40.637-04:00I think there is great longing in this poem. The w...I think there is great longing in this poem. The word "wounded" in particular speaks to loss and pain more than just to change.<br /><br />Sari-woven is interesting, because it connotes not just a certain culture and difference to the speaker, but "woven" indicates that the woman is somehow wrapped up in that culture, sort of protected or shielded by it, perhaps even closed up or bound by it. It's a fascinating description.Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08754785071196846157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.post-52735876716408489512011-04-10T19:40:17.589-04:002011-04-10T19:40:17.589-04:00Amy, so glad to see Living Poetry is back in actio...Amy, so glad to see Living Poetry is back in action!<br /><br />I too was intrigued by the choice of "sari-woven" in the very first line. As a American in New England, it at once sets up an exotic tone, a dream of a far off land. The subject never really gets to visit, just gaze through the "whispsers" of chairs.<br /><br />It leaves me longing -- makes feel this was a missed opportunity, as if the subject could have made something, but was afraid to speak up.<br /><br />But then again, on a second read, I feel I am projecting much more than is really there -- perhaps it is just change and loss of familiarity...Chrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.post-40191724522020517222011-04-06T14:17:38.404-04:002011-04-06T14:17:38.404-04:00@myworld: check the current post for the first one...@myworld: check the current post for the first one :-)<br /><br />@bryce: you're welcome, thanks for the lovely poem<br /><br />@plagasse: my pleasure. Your site makes me so nostalgic for those UHF days.Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08754785071196846157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.post-32875263434508721002011-04-06T00:20:53.212-04:002011-04-06T00:20:53.212-04:00i read this poem so many times, in high school.
an...i read this poem so many times, in high school.<br />and i utterly hated it.<br /><br />now, i was then, and still am, a HUGE Cummings fan, to the extent that i have a piece of his poetry tattooed on my arm. he is my idol, as a poet. i emulate him and draw inspiration from his work in many ways.<br /><br />but for years, i hated this poem. and the reason i hated it was because i never understood it. <br /><br />it took me years to work out the meaning, because although i had read it many times, no one had ever taught it in a class. <br />but somewhere between the 15th and 34th or so reading of it (because it's in every literary anthology ever, it seems), it clicked. <br /><br />i started understanding it. and it's become one of my favorite poems, ever since.Satanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08924927495555847410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.post-38297381755701607492011-04-05T22:55:12.782-04:002011-04-05T22:55:12.782-04:00Just wanted to write to say thank you for the link...Just wanted to write to say thank you for the link to Channel 37 in your "Nifty Blogs and Sites" list! I'm guessing you caught our little performance at the Buskers' Cafe on Saturday. I'm humbled and honored to have a poem in the "Life in Me" anthology. Laura is a cool lady and MWA is a terrific and supportive group.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.post-35339156452888369422011-04-05T15:51:29.005-04:002011-04-05T15:51:29.005-04:00I am so pleased you like the anthology - and thank...I am so pleased you like the anthology - and thanks for the plug :)<br /><a href="http://www.onewritersmind.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">One Writer's Mind</a>JA Grier (ee/em/eir)https://www.blogger.com/profile/10733447921892286243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.post-85418500233748963652011-04-05T00:24:48.045-04:002011-04-05T00:24:48.045-04:00oh love poems
introduce about ur poem soon
eagerly...oh love poems<br />introduce about ur poem soon<br />eagerly waiting to readMinu MThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03131111332392867764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.post-65067443528139574892011-03-12T09:35:05.596-05:002011-03-12T09:35:05.596-05:00Hello. Have you been well?
Unexpectedly found a n...Hello. Have you been well? <br />Unexpectedly found a nice blog, for I was searching for e.e. cumming's l(a. <br />Glad to read your reviews and many more. <br />Have a poetic day!ShwunMi-https://www.blogger.com/profile/03381184894968402356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.post-71941125590623309462011-03-12T01:09:49.646-05:002011-03-12T01:09:49.646-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.FASHION BLOGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11142452878357080056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.post-9411415269729286582010-12-08T23:34:51.526-05:002010-12-08T23:34:51.526-05:00the last part of the poem is the most important! w...the last part of the poem is the most important! why was it left out? <br /><br />When modern people see the carnal body dauntless and flickering gay<br />playing among the elementsneatly, beyond competition <br />and displaying no personality<br />modern people are depressed.<br /><br />Modern people feel themselves at a disadvantage.<br />They know they haveno bodies that could play among the elements.<br />they have only their personalities, that are best seen flat, on the film,<br />flat personalities in two dimensions, imponderable and touchless.<br /><br />And they grudge the circus people the swooping gay weight of limbs<br />that flower in the mere movement, and they grudge them the immediate, physical understanding they have with their circus beasts,<br />and they grudge them their circus life all together.<br /><br />Yet the strange, almost frightened shout of delight that comes now and then from the children<br />shows that the children vaguely know how cheated they are of their birthright<br />in the bright wild circus flesh.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.post-38386863181634698242010-08-23T23:01:42.281-04:002010-08-23T23:01:42.281-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00303888404713862153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.post-49990544383045627752010-07-06T13:26:30.197-04:002010-07-06T13:26:30.197-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07039542818035789565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.post-74229400768575579202010-02-15T06:16:37.733-05:002010-02-15T06:16:37.733-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.オテモヤンhttp://e-nixi.com/blog/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.post-57731002847919152542010-01-21T23:46:31.836-05:002010-01-21T23:46:31.836-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641638.post-32276248383155694862010-01-05T23:51:03.147-05:002010-01-05T23:51:03.147-05:00i am truly touched by this poem because to me, it ...i am truly touched by this poem because to me, it means the narrator regards him/herself as meaningless "...i am the absence/of field..." <br /><br />also the field may be referring to a crowd of people or people that he/she meets throughout their life. "when i walk/i part the air/and always/the air moves in/to fill the spaces/where my body's been." this could mean when the narrator enters an area, he/she interrupts others in their daily lives. all attention is focussed on that person and others are waiting for him/her to move on so they can continue with life. <br /><br />"i move/to keep things whole" i understand this as the narrator thinking of him/herself as a bother to everyone and he/she must move on with life (as quickly and unnoticed as possible) and bother everyone equally rather than bothering a few people for a long time in one place. <br /><br />again, i love this poem however you look at it and i will spend hours reading it over and over. <br /><br />good poetry is when the author makes you feel how they felt when writing it and i felt a sense of loneliness and like im unwanted, ...but then i return to reality.... ...anyways this poem takes me places where i could not go without it!katie-lynnnoreply@blogger.com