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Re: Thursday OPP -- please comment
I am not a fan of Derek Walcott, and here I get the usual DW routine of reading a poet who spends an inordinate amount of time trying to make what he sees, smells,hears, tastes interesting in themselves, blessed only with an excess of qualifiers that the poem becomes something like perfectly fine cup of coffee ruined with too many spoons of sugar. ...
Posted to Poems by Ted Burke on July 4, 2008
Re: Confinement: crowded mass yearning to breath free
Howdy,OneArt. I'd say that the ''treadmill'' I refer is evidence of the confinement Hoagland is writing about; what's for certain is that at this moment, the experience recollected in the poem, he wants out of the life he no longer has empathy for. I don't think the poem is political in the way some have suggested, although it starts that way. ...
Posted to Poems by Ted Burke on June 26, 2008