Banjo52: Poem for a Day, Grace Paley, "Here"

Dec 9, 2009

Poem for a Day, Grace Paley, "Here"

For the Grace Paley poem, click on this link:

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/here-2/

4 comments:

Brenda's Arizona said...: I love it! I want to be this old woman someday...; December 9, 2009 at 1:10 PM
Gothpunkuncle said...: I like where this thread is weaving to. I'd recommend Rich's "A Marriage in the 'Sixties." Also, here's a link to a little character study by James Tate with a female lead that's just too much fun to ever get close to whiny:

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=177315; December 9, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Banjo52 said...: However, GPKuncle, might that lady not need to be poleaxed into silence?

Hope that gets others to read it.

Brenda, it would be OK to be that old woman's old man, too, wouldn't it? Especially if the old man tends to be an explainer . . .

GPKuncle, might you be suggesting that Tate's motorcycle wife and Paley's old man are two of a kind?; December 9, 2009 at 9:03 PM
Banjo52 said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; December 9, 2009 at 9:04 PM

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