tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276911630325008276.post7882320433156625131..comments2024-03-23T08:42:52.963-05:00Comments on Wait! I Have a Blog?!: Happy TwosdayKathleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559881249054540947noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276911630325008276.post-87103785775565430302011-03-22T20:33:14.555-05:002011-03-22T20:33:14.555-05:00Thanks for this discussion, all.
I am blown awa...Thanks for this discussion, all. <br /><br />I am blown away by Regina Spektor, so I will be listening, and I look forward to your poem, Donna. To prepare, I just reread the Collins poem, "(detail)," about a woman looking at a book of poems and finding her favorite. The speaker says it is a detail of a larger painting, as if he is finding fault with her choice, but I think something else happens to him by the end. I hope so, anyway. That's the one, right?<br /><br />Glad you are hooked, Cathy!Kathleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06559881249054540947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276911630325008276.post-7191768300413919112011-03-22T17:20:23.708-05:002011-03-22T17:20:23.708-05:00Definitely Regina Spektor -listen to more and you...Definitely Regina Spektor -listen to more and you won't be disappointed. My poem in the new Rhino is a direct response to my irritation with a line in a Ballistics poem called "details." I have a love/hate relationship with Collins!DJ Vorreyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02166957214456197239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276911630325008276.post-8960279022650185412011-03-22T17:02:45.578-05:002011-03-22T17:02:45.578-05:00I used to hate poetry. Whether the poet was self-...I used to hate poetry. Whether the poet was self-congratulating or self-flagellating, the poems and the reader always seemed to be the last thing on his mind. Words on a page no one else could understand--who needs that?<br /><br />A couple years ago, a writer on Writing.com changed my mind. Hers were mostly confessional poems, but they were comprehensible, and the way she put things said more because it wasn't so direct as prose. I discovered that poetry can be oblique, without being over the heads of readers.<br /><br />I read her chapbook through, but also started listening more closely to song lyrics:<br /><br />On my deathbed I will pray <br />to the gods and the angels <br />like a pagan to anyone <br />who will take me to heaven <br />to a place I recall <br />I was there so long ago <br />the sky was bruised <br />the wine was bled <br />and there you led me on <br /><br />Hooked! This is how anti-poets turn into poetry readers.Cathyhttp://cathydouglas.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276911630325008276.post-86111372360937448372011-03-22T15:27:29.300-05:002011-03-22T15:27:29.300-05:00Yes, I think that's a good qualification. Real...Yes, I think that's a good qualification. Really he is saying that a lyric in a musical is not quite a poem, because it relies on music to make it work.seana grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03774794086733027289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276911630325008276.post-23271277236716303942011-03-22T13:54:58.831-05:002011-03-22T13:54:58.831-05:00"Already 'sings' on its own" mak..."Already 'sings' on its own" makes sense to me, Seana. I would like to read that book and think I can borrow it from a friend! As he is a composer, too, he also knows how to match music and lyrics.<br /><br />I do see some songwriters as poets. They do something a little different with the music. Music becomes an aspect of the form of the poem somehow. I see this with Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Rickie Lee Jones, for example, and maybe Regina Spektor. I don't know her work well enough...Kathleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06559881249054540947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276911630325008276.post-5471179553770860352011-03-22T12:29:56.073-05:002011-03-22T12:29:56.073-05:00Yep, definitely a more muscular writer.
I really ...Yep, definitely a more muscular writer.<br /><br />I really like how Sondheim in <i>Finishing the Hat</i> makes clear the difference between a lyricist and a poet. They are different tasks. Although I may be misunderstanding him, I think he would say that a poem isn't helped by music, because it already 'sings' on its own.seana grahamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03774794086733027289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276911630325008276.post-77323141502670033652011-03-22T11:56:20.328-05:002011-03-22T11:56:20.328-05:00Memorable quotes by Collins.Memorable quotes by Collins.Maureenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13290283101378474845noreply@blogger.com