[New-Poetry] I of the Storm

Tue May 8 13:04:31 EDT 2007

My wife exaggerates all the time too, Skip,
and I've told her millions of times to stop it.

Hal

"Nostalgia ain't what it used to be."
			--Anon.

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On May 8, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Skip Fox wrote:

> Not so far as I’m concerned. (My Dad used to jokingly chide me as a  
> child when I used “almost perfect”  which I did nearly almost all  
> of the time.  He was right to note propensity for unthinking  
> exaggeration. He was right, too.)
>
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> bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Halvard Johnson
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> Oh, no! I hate it when that happens.
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> Hal, the univerally wrong
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> "One barium enema is worth a year
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>  of psychoanalysis."
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>                         --Dr. Robert Whitlock
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> On May 8, 2007, at 11:27 AM, Skip Fox wrote:
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> As immediately convincing to many,
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> As fully convincing to some,
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> As summarily convincing to any,
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> As foolishly convincing to none.
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> Your right, Hal.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu [mailto:new-poetry- 
> bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Halvard Johnson
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 11:16 AM
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> Hmm, either something's univerally convincing or it's not.
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> It's sort of like uniqueness in that way.
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> Hal, the universal pedant
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> On May 8, 2007, at 11:10 AM, Skip Fox wrote:
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> Anny’s probably right then. What it lacks is the fullness of an  
> entire piece if not the book.
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> A certain 20 seconds of Stravinsky might not be as universally  
> convincing as 20 seconds of Bach.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu [mailto:new-poetry- 
> bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu] On Behalf Of jforjames at aol.com
> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 9:56 PM
> To: new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] I of the Storm
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> Sure, it's talk poetry, as one of the other blurbist's described  
> it, but in this example it's the talk of a guy one tries to sidle  
> away from at the party. Some NY School poets (and Schuyler is an  
> exception) are convinced that their discursive musings and stray  
> thoughts are more interesting than yours or mine. Lavender is  
> mistaken about the quality of my casual musings.
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>
> I like gray, gray is my favorite color, 'I would buy myself a gray  
> guitar' as the Counting Crows lyric goes.
>
> Finnegan
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: skip at louisiana.edu
> Sent: Mon, 7 May 2007 11:35 AM
> Subject: RE: [New-Poetry] I of the Storm
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> Flaccid or gray? (Wasn’t “gray” the designation of C.S. Lewis for a  
> type of 16th-cent. poetry?) Or a poetry trying to actually capture  
> an everyday language? Or muted?
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> In a way it reminds me somewhat of James Schuyler and David Antin,  
> resembling several qualities of each. What is interesting is how it  
> rises and falls in energy and intensity over the course of a long  
> piece while never losing its baseline.  An immersion in the real,  
> perhaps.
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> -----Original Message-----
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> bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu] On Behalf Of JforJames at aol.com
> Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 2:36 PM
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> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] I of the Storm
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> In a message dated 5/6/2007 2:43:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
> anny.ballardini at tin.it writes:
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> thesis & antithesis
>
> fine with me.
>
>
> I think that Bill Lavender's work in this book should not be  
> excerpted, it is a continuum that ends with Katrina. I think it is  
> important to give this key.
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> Anny,
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> The press/webpage you pointed to excerpted him...
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> http://www.lavenderink.org/iofthestorm/
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> An important event in human history is an excuse for flaccid poetry?
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> Finnegan
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