tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post8157040488354327870..comments2024-02-05T00:16:13.698-05:00Comments on Banjo52: Edward Hirsch, "Wild Gratitude"Banjo52http://www.blogger.com/profile/04342397136888422440noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-55564049476907907272011-03-24T15:56:43.490-04:002011-03-24T15:56:43.490-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Pasadena Adjacenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09031325790590238246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-46005962047983494572011-03-22T14:52:10.611-04:002011-03-22T14:52:10.611-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Pasadena Adjacenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09031325790590238246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-71451045712329797692011-03-22T09:33:54.978-04:002011-03-22T09:33:54.978-04:00Ken, as in "as easy as"? Yes, I bet it ...Ken, as in "as easy as"? Yes, I bet it is. Thanks.<br /><br />And I suspect that's why so many readers, film-goers, etc. are so enchanted by madness in the arts, in the abstract--we feel we've been there, or close. And oh, how we hate the establishment, the majority, which tells us where the line is--and how we must not cross it. <br /><br />But I don't think Hirsch's poem glorifies madness the way other art and its audiences tend to. I sympathize with, and maybe admire, Hirsch's Christopher Smart, but I do not envy him. I tend to like and romanticize animals, but I do not wish for C.S.'s visions, thanks to Hirsch's rendering of them.Banjo52https://www.blogger.com/profile/04342397136888422440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883979841111173610.post-83179946301915796742011-03-21T16:51:07.283-04:002011-03-21T16:51:07.283-04:00like falling off a clifflike falling off a cliffKen Machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09100185198750536244noreply@blogger.com