tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361304586075259487.post9078287190016365685..comments2023-04-17T01:32:00.068+10:00Comments on Project 365 + 1: Lucy Alexander #64 ‘If prose is a house, poetry is a man on fire running quite fast through it.’ - Anne Carson, October 2016.ACskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01110367021710057605noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361304586075259487.post-8655296263119282622016-11-03T06:07:59.622+11:002016-11-03T06:07:59.622+11:00Ah. That is great, Lucy. Would love to hear you re...Ah. That is great, Lucy. Would love to hear you read it!Rob Schacknehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09820621386743394312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361304586075259487.post-82540111158899195562016-11-02T22:47:46.447+11:002016-11-02T22:47:46.447+11:00yes, thank you, Lucy! yes, thank you, Lucy! Efi Hatzimanolishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05353535863228831260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361304586075259487.post-73941189322131193142016-11-02T21:01:00.318+11:002016-11-02T21:01:00.318+11:00Oh I just gobbled this up. And then the interview....Oh I just gobbled this up. And then the interview. Thank you, Lucy.Sarah St Vincent Welchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05778995457371106915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361304586075259487.post-63439686900500917562016-11-02T13:47:54.999+11:002016-11-02T13:47:54.999+11:00'take a line and run with it *quite fast*'...'take a line and run with it *quite fast*' ??Lucy Alexanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08797873895395109435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361304586075259487.post-36504254797152290692016-11-02T13:46:31.924+11:002016-11-02T13:46:31.924+11:00I had just read this interview, John! Wasn't i...I had just read this interview, John! Wasn't it wonderful -- I loved her brevity and the way she undercut the direct questions. I understand that smokescreen allusion, and really I wanted to twist the poem to comment on the 'burning man' and how there might be a woman of water that would answer his burnt questions....anyway....that's more than a daily poem could do for now. But it was fun just riffing the idea. Thanks for the thoughtful comments.Lucy Alexanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08797873895395109435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361304586075259487.post-54229798332465532442016-11-02T12:28:26.719+11:002016-11-02T12:28:26.719+11:00Or a riff, John, on a quote from that interview: &...Or a riff, John, on a quote from that interview: 'volcanoes are dead easy to paint'.Chris Mansellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07514661667754753011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361304586075259487.post-34225936740735007492016-11-02T11:59:17.299+11:002016-11-02T11:59:17.299+11:00What a hot feisty rush, exhilarating stampede - an...What a hot feisty rush, exhilarating stampede - and ‘are his words vapour ?’ familiar to practitioners of this minority art - but there is always the next poem.<br /><br />Strange but the first line took me away to a worry I have that art can be a smokescreen, a device for avoidance, neglect of family, community, nature > ‘If I have spent the day teaching King Lear or Bach, or in front of Goya, I come home and it may be that the cry in the street is muffled.’ George Steiner<br />(but distraction is rife, anything will do, stamp collecting, addiction, video games).<br /><br />FYI: interview with Carson about her new collection last sunday Guardian [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/30/anne-carson-do-not-believe-art-therapy-interview-float] Strange the power of the word 'quite' in that quote]<br />John Bennetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08417607905075068915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7361304586075259487.post-25283086094068180402016-11-02T11:56:45.920+11:002016-11-02T11:56:45.920+11:00I think this is a great model for something we sho...I think this is a great model for something we should be doing more of ...<br /><br />maybe a model for the conversation in poetry blog for next year<br /><br />let's call it the 'take a line and run with it' model Kit Kelenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01039514155142268468noreply@blogger.com