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Re: Paul Breslin's powerful, panic-prone poem
Hi Ted, I didn't think the poem ''powerful'' or ''panic-prone'' -- but then, I don't live by a fire station like PB does, and a siren (disconcerting as it is to me) doesn't make me think of my own past griefs (or anger, or guilt, or pain) or my future death. I simply don't have the common ground to either write as PB did about or to react as you ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 24, 2008
P.S.: See my other P.S. below...
...I'd forgotten just how double-minded my reviews sometimes are (more positive in one thread, more negative in another). wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 24, 2008
P.S.
Ah, I'd forgotten just how hard-nosed I'd been in my original reply to Foobs. Ouch. This must be what NoStar was referring to. Let's just say that as with many of the better Tuesday Poems, I seem to be double-minded as to my reaction to ''Siren''. Depending on when I'm reading and when I'm writing, sometimes I focus on its strengths and sometimes ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 24, 2008
Re: What I thought I was doing
Dear Mr. Breslin, When we say that most Tuesday Poets don't seem to know what they're doing, we really do suspect their competence. When you say you don't know what you're doing, it's not your competence that the wiser among us suspect -- it's just what you describe it as being, which ''rings true'' to me. I thoroughly enjoyed reading your whole ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 24, 2008
I've missed Mr. Breslin too...
Amen to the lot, NoStar. Plus: NoStar:Your civil acknowledgment of White Rabbit's criticism is an example for all who feel the lash of a bad review. You and Mr. Breslin ''ain't seen nuthin' yet'' if you think that was a bad review. If it were a bad review, then I would've set the text to ''Home on the Range'' and stampeded the thing off the ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 24, 2008
Re: Just a general thank you . . .
Paul_Breslin:. . . and thereby sharpen their sense of their relation to an audience. PB I dunno, Mr. Breslin...around here on Tuesdays, sometimes it seems as if the quote should be ''...and thereby sharpen their sense of their relation to the moat monsters''! (And I can be as toothsome a pleiosaur as any of them, if not the most clued-in of ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 24, 2008
Mr. Breslin, I will never be able to thank you enough.
Several years back, you helped me as I wrote my first pantoum ''Dish It Up'' as an exercise in public revising. Your help and encouragement gave me a stonger confidence in my writing ability. I have missed your presence on the Poem fray. Others may criticize your individual works, but your worth here as a poet and especially as a teacher is ...
Posted to Poems by NoStar on July 23, 2008
Hello Paul,
I posted my ''bitter memory'' in response to what someone brought up. It's not something I deliberately resurrected.It's an admirable thing you do and it comes across as genuine. I am moved by your apology and accept it graciously. All the best to you in the New Year ~ ~ Galatea
Posted to Poems by Galatea on January 22, 2008
And I hope my praise means something...
...all the more because I've not always liked what he's said and/or how he's said it. Be with him or be against him, you know that he knows what he's doing -- and you know where he stands. He is a communicator, something I wish were true of more of the Tuesday Poets. wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on October 16, 2007

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