tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post6460950556066622720..comments2024-02-05T00:16:13.698-05:00Comments on Banjo52: Richard Wilbur, Maurice Manning, Interstate-80 across PennsylvaniaBanjo52http://www.blogger.com/profile/04342397136888422440noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-12845684671642859382010-10-25T12:48:42.050-04:002010-10-25T12:48:42.050-04:00P.S. Owls aren't zippy, you'll notice. A...P.S. Owls aren't zippy, you'll notice. At least not my owl.Banjo52https://www.blogger.com/profile/04342397136888422440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-91955283936728698082010-10-25T12:47:59.192-04:002010-10-25T12:47:59.192-04:00"I yam . . ." Love it. PA, re: road fo..."I yam . . ." Love it. PA, re: road food, I'd argue we have to eat the ambience as well as the food. <br /><br />Remember the Jack Nicolson scene with the tuna sandwich in 5 Easy Pieces? Don't be that guy. Or the waitress.<br /><br />Kitty, welcome, and I agree. No one's had back at me for my "Speed Kills" nagging, a few posts ago, but I find it hard to persuade people to slow down enough for poetry, which SHOULD need to be wallowed in, over and over, whether it's mud or bubble bath. But now, with what's available, including the online stuff, I find myself getting skimmy and sloppy too. <br /><br />But zippy. Even me. Zippy.Banjo52https://www.blogger.com/profile/04342397136888422440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-35455494398613223532010-10-24T22:36:37.775-04:002010-10-24T22:36:37.775-04:00It takes a certain type of soul to appreciate poet...It takes a certain type of soul to appreciate poetry, especially now, as life is so fast paced. I think we humans are becoming more and more detached from our bodies and a sense of time. <br /><br />I hope you've had an excellent weekend!Kittyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13260829805068114560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-14855228231519501062010-10-23T14:49:46.991-04:002010-10-23T14:49:46.991-04:00Being a child and the fear's that accompanied ...Being a child and the fear's that accompanied that "rock a bye baby - bye bye" I can see how owls might play into the night terrors. Isn't that why we make them so dam cute? think 70's medallions. Better yet, think me. I'm working on an owl tile right now for the Lake LA project and he/she looks much like the one you photographed.<br /><br />I'm still working out the god thing. Makes me nervous. I yam what I yam<br /><br />Road food is often the worst. Only breakfast can be trusted..Pasadena Adjacenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09031325790590238246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-47987197685322338552010-10-22T22:48:02.319-04:002010-10-22T22:48:02.319-04:00I like the poems; they warm me.
...he mended fenc...I like the poems; they warm me.<br /><br />...he mended fences in his sleep. <br />He said to the you above, who, let's be honest, doesn't say too much...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-26701811020886295082010-10-22T21:50:26.637-04:002010-10-22T21:50:26.637-04:00Okay, this time the poems were okay read aloud. B...Okay, this time the poems were okay read aloud. But I'm not going to remember them the way I remember Shel Silverstein.<br /><br />Carlin's seven dirty words (the words you can't say . . . . <br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Nrp7cj_tMJean Spitzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13520415864511680025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-43091602751791912252010-10-22T16:54:57.997-04:002010-10-22T16:54:57.997-04:00Brenda, that's some mighty mature prayin'....Brenda, that's some mighty mature prayin'. I admit I like Manning's speakers' attitude toward the divine, even if there's some contention in it. Holding God accountable probably makes not sense, but it feels honest, withOUT reducing God to just another guy--who would deserve to be accountable. <br /><br />Now, Brenda, it's the tree that's green. That brown thing in the middle, THAT's the bird. <br /><br />But maybe if the leaves give him some green tint, that's why I couldn't find him in my zoom at the time (May 2009). <br /><br />I just love that I'm swooning over the mountain foliage, a lifetime first for me, while everybody else goes ga ga over a goddam owl<br />I lucked onto 18 months ago. <br /><br />Maybe if I start calling the Big Guy-Big Thing a sweet potato, people will see things my way.Banjo52https://www.blogger.com/profile/04342397136888422440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-34374435424372497362010-10-22T16:22:23.926-04:002010-10-22T16:22:23.926-04:00Your owl shot is a HOOT! I love it - what a photo,...Your owl shot is a HOOT! I love it - what a photo, what a find.<br /><br />Manning's poem is childlike... in the sense it reminds me of my prayers when I was child. I knew I couldn't want for anything, so I'd pray that the world's doggies were warm, that horses were never whipped, that the hungry families were fed, and that every child in the world got a mommy's hug at night. I think I thought in stanza breaks. But once you pray that way to God, you get to be good buddies and you can call him Yam or Sweetater, or even Fred. You guys become pretty good pals. <br /><br />It is kinda sad, like Manning points out.<br /><br />Now, to go back and look at your owl some more. Is he really green?Brenda's Arizonahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17880225110712592548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-34197903031586367142010-10-22T01:49:57.698-04:002010-10-22T01:49:57.698-04:00The owl photo is amazing.
I don't like crowds...The owl photo is amazing.<br /><br />I don't like crowds, either, but fried grackle probably isn't bad. (I'm speaking theoretically, of course.)<br /><br />Back for the poems later.Jean Spitzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13520415864511680025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-89887883906863155402010-10-21T21:45:13.812-04:002010-10-21T21:45:13.812-04:00I'm all about the owl.I'm all about the owl.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-7755632355494469412010-10-21T21:24:52.089-04:002010-10-21T21:24:52.089-04:00Ken, yep, it was.
Barbaro, yep, I did. I'd b...Ken, yep, it was. <br /><br />Barbaro, yep, I did. I'd be proud of it, but I didn't even know I'd gotten him. Must've been angle of the sun--I could see him with my eyes, but all I could find in the zoom was the green that people were pointing at. So I just started shooting. Whaddya know. <br /><br />Don't let me forget Eat N Park, please. <br /><br />Yeah, I go hot and cold on the odd stanza breaks. I do see the argument for surprise and/or added meaning, but I also see another argument--why have stanzas only to ignore or violate them. Same goes for line breaks. But big names have been doing it at least as far back as Hopkins.Banjo52https://www.blogger.com/profile/04342397136888422440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-44886647574861524672010-10-21T17:29:06.342-04:002010-10-21T17:29:06.342-04:00Did you shoot that owl? Impressive.
I find the ...Did you shoot that owl? Impressive. <br /><br />I find the meter distracting in the Wilbur, the whole poem a bit too purposeful and constructed. I could overlook these qualms in favor of its quiet grace, but I'm not sure I want to. The final rhyme almost carries the whole poem, yet its drama rings slightly false in that humans are the only creatures who DON'T eat things raw, so why should that cause fear?<br /><br />Some nice surprises in the Manning, esp mending fences in sleep, but a lot of slack in many of those lines, and I'm sorry, but I AM getting tired of arbitrary stanza break patterns. <br /><br />You should try Eat N Park in Clarion and throughout western PA. Predictable as Applebees yet uniquely PA.Barbarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04038516078498541056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-30332926685700878682010-10-21T17:03:23.291-04:002010-10-21T17:03:23.291-04:00that looks mighty enjoybalethat looks mighty enjoybaleKen Machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09100185198750536244noreply@blogger.com