[New-Poetry] Help with fuzzy memory?

[Anny Ballardini]

There is no One like David, _indeed_

and Fate added some to it since I received this mail at 6.22pm and Tad's at 6.26pm.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David Graham 
  To: opus40-01 at opus40.org ; NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &Views 
  Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 6:22 PM
  Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Help with fuzzy memory?


  Probably thinking of Wm. Matthews's classic essay, "Dull Subjects," about which I've certainly posted here multiply.


  Here's the relevant bit:


   I suspect the earliest compilers of a Subject Index to Poetry would find their major headings both borderless and few. To forestall such fruitless labors, I hereby offer a short but comprehensive summary of subjects for lyric poetry.

  1.            I went out into the woods today amid it made me feel, you know, sort of religious.
  2.            We’re not getting any younger.
  3.            It sure is cold and lonely (a) without you, honey, or (b) with you, honey.
  4.            Sadness seems but the other side of the coin of happiness, and vice versa, and in any case the coin is too soon spent amid on we know not what.


  One could, I suppose if one were possessed of a mania for condensation and categorization, offer a single ur-plot for lyric poetry and indeed for all imaginative literature, amid if so, one could do worse than the following four—word sentence, a plot summary of the Bob Hope, Bing Crosby amid Dorothy Lamour film, The Road to Bali: “Amorous gorilla pursues Hope.”

  --Wm. Matthews, fr. "Dull Subjects"




  On Dec 8, 2006, at 11:15 AM, opus40-01 at opus40.org wrote:



    There's a gag about the subject matter of contemporary poetry, and one part of it is something about going for a walk and feeling, you know, all at one with the universe.

    Anyone know what I'm talking about? Can anyone give me the whole thing?

    Tad


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