[New-Poetry] Forrest Gander (Again)

[Jeff Newberry]

Reading the quote again, Paul, I can certainly see your point.

It may be that I'm a bit gassy myself, but I like it.

Take care,

Jeff


On 5/1/06, Paul Lake <paul.lake at mail.atu.edu> wrote:
>
> On 5/1/06 2:52 PM, "Jeff Newberry" <jeff.newberry at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  I'm not picking a fight here--curious that I feel the need to add this
> caveat when I disagree with somebody . . .
>
> Anyway, I dont' think of Forrest Gander as a gaseous writer.  I've read a
> good bit of the book of essays that the quotation in question comes from (
> *A Faithful Existence*)*.*  He seems to me a writer imminently connected
> to the natural world; his poetry stems from his connection with the land.
>  I've just finished reading *Eye Against Eye, *which includes a wonderful
> sequence of poems written after some landscape photography by Sally Mann.  I
> don't have the book right here in front of me, but I was impressed with it.
>  I'd never read anything by Forrest Gander before; I'd heard of him, but I
> knew that he published with New Directions that that my aesthetic was
> somewhat different than his.  Frankly, I didn't think that I'd like his
> work.
>
> However, I read him and I did really enjoy it.  I've just gotten copies of
> *Science & Steepleflower* and *Deeds of Utmost Kindess*.  So far, I'm not
> liking them as much as I do Eye Against Eye, but I find the poems
> fascinating (if not somewhat opaque at places).
>
> All of this to say that I didn't think the quotation I posted was any more
> "gaseous" or elevated than any number of things one could say about poetry.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff Newberry
>
>
> On 5/1/06, *Paul Lake* <paul.lake at mail.atu.edu> wrote:
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> On 5/1/06 1:05 PM, "DICK at pkmfgvm4.vnet.ibm.com" <
> DICK at pkmfgvm4.vnet.ibm.com>
> wrote:
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> > Uncomfortable with elevated language and thoughts, fellas?
>
> Only if the elevation is a result of gaseousness.
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> I haven't read the books by Gander you mentioned. I was only responding to
> the prose statement of his you posted.
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> Paul
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