tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22055454.post3592718413762783273..comments2023-07-14T02:16:13.834-06:00Comments on sample blog: Mike Hauserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18008007361237334363noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22055454.post-63543840969993993952007-09-11T17:21:00.000-06:002007-09-11T17:21:00.000-06:00mike, i've the same attitude you for bukowski as y...mike, i've the same attitude you for bukowski as you have for wright. for me wright is still an important poet, tho many of the writers i esteemed in my late teens and early 20s are no longer so important to me, such as robert lowell or anne sexton. <BR/><BR/>bukowski is i think not so bad but the deliberate tuff guy posing and his flat lines often leave me cold. but there is a talent there that strikes me sometimes right in the solar plexus.<BR/><BR/>i don't know what a workshop poem is, and i'd assume that most people who are poets have taken just that very thing. perhaps, wright's reputation suffers from neglect because the focus of present-day writing is not what the same as what it was in wright's day. whatever that means, i suppose.<BR/><BR/>even still, tastes are always changing. and it comes down to a matter of individual aesthetics and tastes. sorta like loving the band rush at age 13, then later discovering black flag at age 15, and wondering what the fuck what you ever saw in rush at all.<BR/><BR/>zdpieper, gonna start a blog? was just asking mike about you, since i found a few photos of you and mike reading online last week, got curious and started looking for yr work online. <BR/><BR/>just a few stray thoughts<BR/>from a disorganized systemrichard lopezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02331807433806381883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22055454.post-82048407625876267672007-09-11T14:59:00.000-06:002007-09-11T14:59:00.000-06:00I guess I was speaking in terms of my own taste. A...I guess I was speaking in terms of my own taste. Also I was kind of trying to be funny-- the idea of begrudgingly liking a certain poet is kind of silly, and yet practical. But then a trend around based around saying "James Wright is not so bad". Woo! Get out your hankies-- your laughing hankies that is! Sometimes it's interesting though to think why you're not into something so much as before.Mike Hauserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18008007361237334363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22055454.post-61447909135899198572007-09-11T11:02:00.000-06:002007-09-11T11:02:00.000-06:00"it's own thing" is a phrase Iam keen to apply.But..."it's own thing" is a phrase I<BR/>am keen to apply.<BR/><BR/>But this whole "James Wright isn't<BR/>so bad" thing....I dunno.<BR/><BR/>I think maybe alot of poets associate his poetry with Poetry<BR/>Workshops in general, that sterile post-Workshop-straightforwardness<BR/>often encouraged. The whole: "let's<BR/>write what we know!" thing. Oh, and<BR/>"beautiful images ect."<BR/><BR/>But doesn't it seem a little wierd<BR/>to have the point of discussing<BR/>his poems be "oh he's not so bad<BR/>after all, see?". I mean, who ever decided his poetry wasn't aesthetically relevant in the first<BR/>place? <BR/><BR/>Are we re-evaluating? Good a day<BR/>for it as any.zdpieperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01296533540695048053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22055454.post-10179318935052454972007-09-09T14:48:00.000-06:002007-09-09T14:48:00.000-06:00It seems like Wright was one of those poets who co...It seems like Wright was one of those poets who could write really really beautiful lines, but it's rather laborious to read an entire poem. Yeah, the clunkiness...Mike Hauserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18008007361237334363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22055454.post-71949734947392425912007-09-08T20:20:00.000-06:002007-09-08T20:20:00.000-06:00wright is indeed one of those poets i met with in ...wright is indeed one of those poets i met with in my early 20s, much like dylan thomas and rimbaud was in my late teens, who i still have a tremendous affection for. i agree that wright and those other 'deep image' poets like some of big jim dickey and all of bly were obsessed with the translation of poems, something that i still think is fertile ground. it wasn't just the spanish-language surrealists that wright obsessed over, he was nuts about trakl too i think, and lots and lots of poets living and dead. his kind of erudition is something to be envied i would hazard to say. in the end he was a dude who was so in love with poetry even if he was also a megalomaniac. i've read and reread his collected over the years and i think the deliberate clunkiness of his lines in his later work is a bit of genius. <BR/><BR/>check out the paris review interview here<BR/> <BR/>http://www.theparisreview.com/viewinterview.php/prmMID/3839<BR/><BR/>i agree with kasey that many of his poems are rather dated - such as his poem 'lying in a field' and yes it was a wasted life. i intend to waste mine in a similar fashion.richard lopezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02331807433806381883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22055454.post-73822422653540151942007-09-08T15:37:00.000-06:002007-09-08T15:37:00.000-06:00Almost everyone I know, myself included, likes "Ly...Almost everyone I know, myself included, likes "Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota." Julia Cohen remarks, though, that it would be better if it were just the title and the last line ("I have wasted my life"). I think she's right.Kasey Mohammadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13353259413006470925noreply@blogger.com