[lit-ideas] Re: Taste of the pseudo-serious Poetaster
- From: "Stan Spiegel" <writeforu2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 17:51:56 -0400
Hey Mike! I just noticed that last line of yours: "I refuse to take my stuff
seriously enough to talk about it."
Wow! You remind me of my daughter who thinks she's serious about writing
fiction, but unless I'm simply a cheerleader, she gets offended. Critiques
are anathema, just praise. Just give her praise.
You show courage by exposing your work to us. But don't you expect us to be
as analytical about your work as we are about George W. Bush's or Michael
Moore's?
I hope this doesn't stop you from sending us your Sunday work, but do you
expect us to change our stripes just because we admire your willingness to
make yourself vulnerable in the public square? (I think that was the
underlying expectation, now that I think about it.) I'm caught in a trap
now. I don't know which way to turn. Should I just shut up?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 4:06 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Taste of the Poetaster
> What the hell do you mean I'm not subtle? Maybe my not 'being subtle' is
an
> ultra-subtle way of being subtle. Think about that. Appreciate your
> comments, but I refuse to take my stuff seriously enough to talk about it.
>
> take care,
> Mike
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stan Spiegel" <writeforu2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 2:08 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: SUNDAY POEM
>
>
> > Mike -
> > Today's pieces sound like Tennesee haiku, if there is something like
that.
> > If I had my druthers, I'd like to see you develop the first one more
> fully.
> > The broad brush-strokes you use immediately engage me, my sense of
rhythm
> > and my ear, but it was too small an hors d'oeuvre to satisfy my
appetite.
> > (like haiku, I guess. I have a hard time with things that whet my
appetite
> > but I can only have a teeny bit of. I can't enjoy a tiny sip. I need to
> > drink the whole bottle. I could easily be an alcoholic.You're not
helping
> me
> > get drunk.)
> >
> > The way you start, the picture you draw in "The Tao of Dad" --
everything
> > works, but I'm lost when it comes to the significance of your title. I'm
> no
> > Eastern philosopher so when I looked it up, I found tao refers to the
> > universal force that produces harmony in nature. I don't see harmony in
> > nature in your picture of your dad like a wind-shaped tree.
> >
> > Is it unfair of me to ask you to talk about your intentions? Usually
> you're
> > as subtle as a live firehose or a punch in the nose. Neither your humor
> nor
> > your diatribes show subtlety. How come here?
> > Stan Spiegel
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: "LIT-IDEAS" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 1:56 PM
> > Subject: [lit-ideas] SUNDAY POEM
> >
> >
> > > THE TAO OF DAD
> > >
> > >
> > > See him? There on that hill. Yes,
> > > the one just standing there,
> > > looking for all the world
> > > like a wind-shaped tree,
> > > a survivor,
> > > while all around him,
> > > dust devils, ghost marauders, raid the fields.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > THE TAO OF DOING
> > >
> > > Listen. Is that the sound of stone bending water
> > > or of stone-bending water?
> > >
> > >
> > > THE TAO OF DOG
> > >
> > > A trail of dry paw-prints in dew-darkened dust.
> > > Even that, sun erased, left no trace.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > THE TAO OF DEATH
> > >
> > > Now he, too, has turned to dust,
> > > returned to lusting Earth,
> > > both he and the woman who gave me birth
> > > returned
> > > but I kept their mirth.
> > > What use is it to stupid Earth?
> > >
> > >
> > > --- Mike Geary
> > >
> > >
> > > Mike Geary
> > > Memphis
> > >
> > >
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