[New-Poetry] Calling Dr. Giggles (& an unfunny poem)

[TheOldMole]

Rachel -- I love it.

Tad

Rachel Loden wrote:
> Finnegan, thanks for that link (below) to The Dangerfield Conundrum, our
> roundtable on humor and poetry at Jacket. It's at least a start, and of
> course (hello Sam Gwynn!) an incomplete and imperfect one, on an even
> larger, more boisterous discussion.
>
> And if you're so inclined, have a look at Edward Byrne's blog One Poet's
> Notes: he links to my not-very-funny poem "Reconstructed Face," which is
> poem of the week at the Valparaiso Poetry Review for one more day:
>
> http://www.valpo.edu/english/vpr/lodenreconstructed.html
>
> Rachel Loden
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> [mailto:new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu] On Behalf Of jforjames at aol.com
> 	Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 8:50 AM
> 	To: new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu
> 	Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Calling Dr. Giggles
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> 	Suzanne, there is no aversion. I was saying the editor of Poetry
> wanted to see more humorous poems
> 	submitted to poetry...she stated that she wasn't seeing enough of
> them.
> 	http://www.poetrymagazine.org/magazine/0706/
> 	David Graham tried to point out to her in a letter, as I recall,
> that there were quite few poets who regularly published funny poems. 
> 	
> 	But I thnk the Poetry editor was correct...by & large we poets are a
> dour lot. Jack Gilbert has a short poem that goes something like, 'The Greek
> sailors don't play on the beach and I don't write funny poems'. (But he has
> frolicked a few times.)
> 	
> 	Recently there was a special feature in Jacket on humor & poetry
> that came out various discussions on the HumPo list.
> 	http://jacketmagazine.com/33/humpo-discussion.shtml
> 	
> 	Finnegan
> 	
> 	The total absence of humour from the Bible is one of the most
> singular things in all literature.
> 	
> 	--Alfred North Whitehead
> 	quoted in Price's Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead
>
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>
> 	-----Original Message-----
> 	From: Suzanne Burns <atelierjewelweed at gmail.com>
> 	Bcc: jforjames at aol.com
> 	Sent: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 9:42 pm
> 	Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Calling Dr. Giggles
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> 	On 9/6/07, jforjames at aol.com <jforjames at aol.com> wrote: 
>
> 		One of the asst. editors of Poetry (in the special Humor
> issue) complained that there was dearth of comic poetry among the many
> submissions they get each year. 
> 		
> 		Finnegan
>
>
>
> 	What is this big aversion people have to funny, witty poems?  I have
> never been able to figure that out.   I think humor is one of the highest
> forms of intelligence.  Its a kind of emotional transcendance, an ability to
> break through the bullshit and defalte it with laughter.    What could be
> more valuable in a poem?  A lack of a sense of humor just stinks of
> cowardice.
> 	
> 	Someone explain this to me please.
> 	
> 	Suzanne Burns
> 	
>
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Tad Richards
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