[lit-ideas] Re: The History of Effects
- From: "Julie Krueger" <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:05:56 -0600
I'm smiling. I'm glad someone else loved it! I've received replies from
the handful of people I shared it with heavily criticizing the style, form,
etc. Here's one response from a retired editor in NY:
<<One of my copywriters fancied himself a poet (and was a Yeats scholar
working on a grad degree) and tried to develop my ken of poetry. He'd
recite a line or two and asked me what I thought and I always seemed to say
the wrong thing. Exasperated, he would say: "But can't you see? It's so
obvious!" And I'd reply, "Not to me." I guess I just don't have that kind
of mind.
He was attending Columbia at night and taking a class with a noted Yeat's
scholar whose name I have forgotten. He claimed to have seen something new
in a set of three short poems by Yeats. His teacher doubted that anyone
could find something new in Yeats, but let him do a grad thesis on the
poems. The poems added up to a few hundred words. He did a fifty-page
monograph on them that I could not even begin to understand. It was the
slow season, so I let him work on the thesis on company time. How
industrious he looked! LOL.
He left Ronald Press for academia. The last I heard of him was that he had
married a very wealthy woman. Way to go!>>
I guess I just don't know enough to not love that poem.
Julie Krueger
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thank you, Julie. I loved that.
>
> Mike Geary
> Memphis
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Julie Krueger <juliereneb@xxxxxxxxx>
> *To:* lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Sent:* Friday, November 28, 2008 4:24 PM
> *Subject:* [lit-ideas] The History of Effects
>
> From today's "Writer's Almanac":
> The History of Effects
>
> by William
> Greenway<http://www.elabs7.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=fj6,ctw4,dv,3v6l,g7eq,m9hw,l29c>
> The Bible was created by Bishop Ussher
> in 4004 B.C. Then Galileo cooked the universe
> too long, and the earth, like a yolk, slipped off
> center and everything began to wobble.
> Freud needed a reason to talk about sex,
> and Marx wrote a bestseller
> so he could retire rich.
> When the species started to hunt
> for their origin, they discovered Darwin.
>
> So now the ears of corn put down
> tethers to the earth, trees rake
> the wind into piles, the sun turns the world
> like a ballerina, the way a magnet whirls
> a rotor. Silence squelches the radios,
> and darkness the bulbs. Automobiles are invented
> to reach the malls, and choppers to haul
> body bags, and animals come to live with us
> to quench our loneliness and nourish our hunger.
> We've begun to love the people who need us
> as dandruff rises from sweaters to infect our hair,
> and parachutes are the white flags
> of suicides that fail.
> Julie Krueger
>
>
>
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