[New-Poetry] Poems by Others: Robinson Jeffers

[Suzanne Burns]

:-)

Aw shucks!

Well I kind of own Anny a bio and some poems, so maybe I should move my butt
and do that so that people can see a bit more of what I do!

I used to publish a lot, but haven't recently because I am hideously
disorganized.  One of my new year resolutions is to get over that and start
showing my face again.

Let's talk!!

Many Thanks,

Suzanne


On 1/5/07, Suzanne Baran <screwzbaran at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Suzanne,
>
> Is there any place I can view your work or writing?
> I really love reading your responses, you possess a great fluid writing
> style.
>
> --Suzanne
>
> On 1/5/07, Suzanne Burns <queenmouse at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >
> >
> > On 1/5/07, Jeff Newberry <jeff.newberry at gmail.com > wrote:
> > >
> > > Jim Finnegan said: "It's not the ocean but that big brain in the bone
> > > vault that makes beauty."
> > >
> > > Perhaps, but that's not what Jeffers believed.  Good point, though.
> > >
> >
> >
> > I am not so sure that he would disagree necessarily-- I think he might
> > agree that "beauty" is a concept that humans have developed  and applied to
> > things they find aesthetically pleasing, and that the concept is objectively
> > irrelevant to the thing itself, and probably an imposition.
> >
> > The ocean is simply itself.  The rat, the hawk, the cobra are simply
> > what they are, and their beauty and vitality belongs completely to
> > themselves-- what they are *to us* is just not important.
> >
> > I think he would also add that they are   worthier than we are because
> > they have done less harm, and that we should take ourselves and our concepts
> > of beauty and perfection on a long walk off a short pier. After all where
> > have our desires and tastes taken this planet?  How do we reconcile our
> > longing for beauty as we look at the ocean with the fact that the Pacific
> > has a big raft of plastic garbage floating around in it because of our
> > consumer-driven ( i.e., desire-driven) wastefulness?
> >
> > Of course this is all just hair splitting.  I just love Jeffers.
> >
> > Another fine environmental poet to read is W.S. Merwin of course.  I
> > should dig up his poem about the pineapples.
> >
> >
> > Suzanne Burns
> >
> >
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