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Contemporary serious poetry and music...
...come from the same philosophical roots. That's why they have what you see in common in the genres. Some of both genres are indeed as antinomian and iconoclastic as you two say. Not all is, however, and I don't think that ''Abundance'' is quite as bad as you two make out. For why I think this, see here. That said, I'll reiterate my belief that ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on April 29, 2008
An "abundance" of time I don't have...
...so regrettably, I have to limit myself to this: 1) This bit of free verse isn't quite as bad (IMO, at least) as the post ''How to Write a Hack Poem: Lesson #2'' suggests (however accurate that thread is about contemporary ''serious'' poetry and classical music in general). It is thoughtful, touches upon a part of the human condition without ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on April 29, 2008
Re: That's damn good you know?
Foobs:Well, I would break out down into three non-judgmental things: 1) We are both communicative writers. We value clarity. 2) A lot of people like rhyme and meter, and not all of them are jerks. 3) We both enjoy writing and, I think, it shows. So many writers give the impression that they tear words out of their hearts with blood and ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on April 23, 2008
Re: More of my homework assignments.
Ah, this is what you meant elsewhere by not breaking training.I see(Said he)How farYou areProgressing. O bard,It's hardTo rhyme,But I'mDigressing. As in so much else, I am self-taught in poetry (and self-defined as ''an amateur light verse writer''). I never tried such a disciplined course in writing poetry (not since high school). I just fly by ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on April 23, 2008
White_Rabbit weighs in on Culturebox...
MaryAnn:this sharp, witty and instructive Culturebox article by Robert Pinsky -- http://www.slate.com/id/2189318/ You're joking, right? Sharp? Witty? Instructive? How about inconsistent, evasive, and ultimately needlessly insulting? If that last bit was meant to be witty, then it was in exceedingly poor taste. Mr. Pinsky reminds me of a ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on April 18, 2008
Parallelism in ancient Semitic poetry
Hi Waltz, One has to get used to the rhetoric of ancient Semitic poetry before one's ear is trained to tell the difference between a translation that takes the rhetoric into account and one that doesn't. To me, the difference is salient and non-negligible. Practice with the Psalms in their original musical dress has helped me enormously in this ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on March 29, 2008
Just for the record...
Pericope (Wikipedia search) Pericope (Wikipedia article) Yes, in my parody I mispronounced ''pericope'' (as if it rhymed with ''cantaloupe'' or ''antelope''). Think of it as being in quotes, if you like. Palaver sauce (Wikipedia article) - interesting of itself, and linked to ''palaver'' on Wikidictionary. A citation of the article on the sauce ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on March 12, 2008
Re: "The Offense of Poetry"
In another post, islandtime wrote: Hazard Adams (love the name, but it sounds more like he should be wrestling grizzly bears than writing books) is a Univ. of Wash. professor whose new book is titled, ''The Offense of Poetry.'' From the UW bookstore site, here's a partial description of the book: There is something offensive and scandalous ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on March 7, 2008
Phantom poetry? ;)
I don’t think this is a fabulous poem. I don’t even think it’s a good poem, or an adequate poem. I do think it doesn’t stink. And maybe that’s the best we can expect from Pinsky. The wordplays (which seem to depend greatly on equivocations of meaning) are interesting, and what they evoke in your mind is interesting too. (Whatever happened to ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on February 27, 2008
Re: Bring Me the Head of Robert Pinsky: "Richard Noel"
Vergilius:I'm prepared to applaud the experiment. I'm not. The temptation to let regular meter lull the reader to sleep could be overcome by the same means great versifiers have always overcome the temptation: by playing with euphony, for one. Yes, one could arrive at a different conclusion from a.y.m.'s, that the poet was lazy. Mine was that ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on February 27, 2008

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