A.D., Anne, AJPL, or someone/anyone else who might be familiar with Ulysses and also The Odyssey, would you like to proofread something that is in the roughest state of draft--I mean splintery? If so, let me know, and I will email it to you.
Please, please, pretty please.
Signed, Krazed in Kentucky
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Monday, February 27, 2006
Saturday, February 25, 2006
Word of the Week (from Merriam-Webster)
snickersnee \SNIK-er-snee\ noun: a large knife
Example sentence:
"The Lord High Executioner in The Mikado is someone who couldn't bring himself to execute a fly with a newspaper let alone a fellow human being with a razor-sharp snickersnee." (Canberra Times, November 30, 2003)
Did you know?
Back when pirates were swashbuckling around the seven seas, someone who got into "steake or snye" was engaging in cut-and-thrust sword and dagger fighting. "Steake or snye," which came from a Dutch term meaning "to thrust or cut," was eventually modified into "snick or snee," but the meaning of the phrase remained the same. By around 1775, the phrase had been compressed into the single word "snickersnee," which was used both as a verb for the act of such fighting and as a noun naming the knife used in such clashes.
______
Okay, a few things immediately come to mind here.
1. Smee with his snickersnee would just be too funny to be omitted from Peter Pan.
2. Snicker (cut) and doodle (dawdling fool)--evolves into the first cookie I ever baked--? use of snickersee for cookie cutter? The cinnamon sprinkled on these cookies looks like freckles.
3. Snickersee is a dactyl, just like Pamela. Pterodactyl is not a dactyl, but a pair of trochees. I will pass this meter class yet.
Example sentence:
"The Lord High Executioner in The Mikado is someone who couldn't bring himself to execute a fly with a newspaper let alone a fellow human being with a razor-sharp snickersnee." (Canberra Times, November 30, 2003)
Did you know?
Back when pirates were swashbuckling around the seven seas, someone who got into "steake or snye" was engaging in cut-and-thrust sword and dagger fighting. "Steake or snye," which came from a Dutch term meaning "to thrust or cut," was eventually modified into "snick or snee," but the meaning of the phrase remained the same. By around 1775, the phrase had been compressed into the single word "snickersnee," which was used both as a verb for the act of such fighting and as a noun naming the knife used in such clashes.
______
Okay, a few things immediately come to mind here.
1. Smee with his snickersnee would just be too funny to be omitted from Peter Pan.
2. Snicker (cut) and doodle (dawdling fool)--evolves into the first cookie I ever baked--? use of snickersee for cookie cutter? The cinnamon sprinkled on these cookies looks like freckles.
3. Snickersee is a dactyl, just like Pamela. Pterodactyl is not a dactyl, but a pair of trochees. I will pass this meter class yet.
Word of the Week (from Merriam-Webster)
snickersnee \SNIK-er-snee\ noun: a large knife
Example sentence:
"The Lord High Executioner in The Mikado is someone who couldn't bring himself to execute a fly with a newspaper let alone a fellow human being with a razor-sharp snickersnee." (Canberra Times, November 30, 2003)
Did you know?
Back when pirates were swashbuckling around the seven seas, someone who got into "steake or snye" was engaging in cut-and-thrust sword and dagger fighting. "Steake or snye," which came from a Dutch term meaning "to thrust or cut," was eventually modified into "snick or snee," but the meaning of the phrase remained the same. By around 1775, the phrase had been compressed into the single word "snickersnee," which was used both as a verb for the act of such fighting and as a noun naming the knife used in such clashes.
______
Okay, a few things immediately come to mind here.
1. Smee with his snickersnee would just be too funny to be omitted from Peter Pan.
2. Snicker (cut) and doodle (dawdling fool)--evolves into the first cookie I ever baked--? use of snickersee for cookie cutter? The cinnamon sprinkled on these cookies looks like freckles.
3. Snickersee is a dactyl, just like Pamela. Pterodactyl is not a dactyl, but a pair of trochees. I will pass this meter class yet.
Example sentence:
"The Lord High Executioner in The Mikado is someone who couldn't bring himself to execute a fly with a newspaper let alone a fellow human being with a razor-sharp snickersnee." (Canberra Times, November 30, 2003)
Did you know?
Back when pirates were swashbuckling around the seven seas, someone who got into "steake or snye" was engaging in cut-and-thrust sword and dagger fighting. "Steake or snye," which came from a Dutch term meaning "to thrust or cut," was eventually modified into "snick or snee," but the meaning of the phrase remained the same. By around 1775, the phrase had been compressed into the single word "snickersnee," which was used both as a verb for the act of such fighting and as a noun naming the knife used in such clashes.
______
Okay, a few things immediately come to mind here.
1. Smee with his snickersnee would just be too funny to be omitted from Peter Pan.
2. Snicker (cut) and doodle (dawdling fool)--evolves into the first cookie I ever baked--? use of snickersee for cookie cutter? The cinnamon sprinkled on these cookies looks like freckles.
3. Snickersee is a dactyl, just like Pamela. Pterodactyl is not a dactyl, but a pair of trochees. I will pass this meter class yet.
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Spacetaker from E-Verse Radio
Invaluable Fact of the Week:
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.
Sunday, February 19, 2006
Subliminal Mutterings
Right time:: Night time
Funeral:: Blues (Stop all the clocks)
Calculate:: Advantage
Believe me:: I swear
Chat:: Room
Anniversary:: April 29
Let you down:: easily
Shout:: Tears for Fears (I'm a child of the 80s)
Sweatsock:: Son
Prayer:: Owen Meany
Funeral:: Blues (Stop all the clocks)
Calculate:: Advantage
Believe me:: I swear
Chat:: Room
Anniversary:: April 29
Let you down:: easily
Shout:: Tears for Fears (I'm a child of the 80s)
Sweatsock:: Son
Prayer:: Owen Meany
Saturday, February 18, 2006
Borrowed from Ver's Blog (With Apologies to Dylan Thomas)
....fingers taxed the breath/Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country.
Thursday, February 16, 2006
A Raven Like a Writing Desk
What’s on my desk—dark oak bookstand, with my uncollected poems all collected into a 3-ring binder. Art nouveau brass lamp with a tortoise patterned shade; the base of the lamp curves like a treble clef. Bible open to the verse on the little foxes. Post-it notes in piles like fading autumn leaves. My new pen with its mother of pearl cap. Pearl earrings. Pencils. Indigo ink. Blue jay feather. Translation-in-progress of Rilke that’s instead turning into another poem. CD of Samson/Delilah by St. Saens. A mimeographed poem that an old friend wrote for me, words about to vanish like old bruises. The Last Nostalgia. “Self-Portrait in Black Hat.”
P.S. Space cleared off for my new laptop, which was one of my Valentine’s gifts. My husband is, shall we say, uxorious.
P.S.S. And the desk is perhaps my biggest bargain of all time, Stickley style and definitely of the period, with matching bookshelf, both for $35.00.
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Fiction Class--"Horses"
My first short story for fiction class is heading out today into the world of workshop (typed "worship--as in "with my body I thee workshop?"). I can already tell it is going to be a weird experience in this group. This is my Patti Smith, shoplifting, littering, Japanese lantern story, with a punk rock beat,(obviously), and it's not very linear, not very narrative.
For some reason, fiction is very easy for me to write badly--in fact, it's so fun it's almost addicting.
Wish me well, or well, wish me something. I'm not a little nervous...
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Say it with Dactyls--Happy Valentine's Day from Harv!
Here's what was in my card. (Proving, that as Elizabeth Bishop writes in "Filling Station," somebody loves us all).
"Name"
Carol Ann Duffy
When did your name
change from a proper noun
to a charm?
Its three vowels
like jewels
on the thread of my breath.
Its consonants
brushing my mouth
like a kiss.
I love your name.
I say it again and again
in this summer rain.
I see it,
discreet in the alphabet,
like a wish.
I pray it
into the night
till its letters are light.
I hear your name
rhyming, rhyming,
rhyming with everything.
"Name"
Carol Ann Duffy
When did your name
change from a proper noun
to a charm?
Its three vowels
like jewels
on the thread of my breath.
Its consonants
brushing my mouth
like a kiss.
I love your name.
I say it again and again
in this summer rain.
I see it,
discreet in the alphabet,
like a wish.
I pray it
into the night
till its letters are light.
I hear your name
rhyming, rhyming,
rhyming with everything.
At least my scrollwork is still lovely...
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Monday, February 13, 2006
Antholo-jheese (to borrow a phrase)
Oh, what a thrill to have The Longman Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry 1950-1980 back in my hands. I lent this anthology to a friend over 20 years ago, and I have just now found another copy. I'm hopeful that someone will be able to identify another poetry anthology--it was from the mid 1980s, was white with and green graphics (squares?; not totally all over the cover but ON the cover), and had many good poems inside it, including Stephen Dobyns' poems written after Balthus paintings. If anyone has any ideas on what the name of this anthology might be, I'd really like to know it. I've looked and looked.
Sunday, February 12, 2006
Subliminal musings this week
- Unorthodox:: methodology
- Skate:: board
- Hold on:: tightly
- Europe:: on 10 dollars a day
- Reminder:: PS
- Gold:: Silver
- Calcium:: depleted bones
- Rated R:: Nude
- Saturday night:: Fever
- Tell:: Overture
Thursday, February 09, 2006
Subliminal Mutterings
- Taking sides:: Opininated
- Couples:: only, or two girls may skate together"--quote from my childhood rink
- Right of refusal:: Just Say No
- Marla:: Carla Darla
- Multiple:: Personality
- Trinity:: Is Still My Name
- Sneeze:: Gesundheit
- Sweatpants:: Bliss
- Steve:: Canyon
- Fabulous:: Baker Boys
My Favorite Journal's Back--with Marilyn Hacker
My student loan money is finally here! Today, I've paid my bills for the first time since January 1, and the student loan fiasco, which (plus all these medical bills) wiped out all our savings when the $$$ didn't come in on time due to a bureaucratic snafu. I've ordered all my books and paid for others. If I owe you money, I am paying you with interest.
I just subscribed to Poetry Northwest, which was once my favorite magazine. Before my apartment burned, I had years and years of their issues, and also years and years of Field, which I found in cardboard boxes beside a college dumpster. PNW was always my favorite journal, and I'm looking forward to its rebirth. If you subscribe by mail by 02/28, you can get 2 years (4 issues) for $20.00. If you subscribe by Paypal, it's $25.00.
Marilyn Hacker's the online feature--I linked to it above. Isn't that ghazal something?
I just subscribed to Poetry Northwest, which was once my favorite magazine. Before my apartment burned, I had years and years of their issues, and also years and years of Field, which I found in cardboard boxes beside a college dumpster. PNW was always my favorite journal, and I'm looking forward to its rebirth. If you subscribe by mail by 02/28, you can get 2 years (4 issues) for $20.00. If you subscribe by Paypal, it's $25.00.
Marilyn Hacker's the online feature--I linked to it above. Isn't that ghazal something?
SNOOKERED BY THE SONNET
That's one of my assignments (after the "translation" of Hart Crane and Dylan Thomas into my own version of 21st-century English, then back into Thomas/Crane's form).
I don't want to post this sonnet yet--anyone want to take a look?
Not waving here, but drowning
I don't want to post this sonnet yet--anyone want to take a look?
Not waving here, but drowning
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Monday, February 06, 2006
One Word: Blender
In my kitchen are a pink blender and a pink mixer on a stand and a pink refrigerator and a pink stove, and a pink clown cookie jar on my pink formica table with its black and grey boomerangs--Buy me a shirtwaist and tie me on an apron and I'm June Cleaver--and don't you find it odd that I'm named for a weapon? Watch it, Ward, the 50s are ending soon enough, and I'll be on the warpath...
Sunday, February 05, 2006
Get Yer Adverbs Out--Auden's Inspiration
Am I the only one who didn't realize there were 3 black sheep in this painting?
Friday, February 03, 2006
Thursday, February 02, 2006
What I Learned in Fiction Workshop: Meteorology, Mary, and Mosaic
1. Groundhog Day was once a religious holiday. Who knew?
FROM REFERENCE.COM: Candlemas commemorates the occasion when the Virgin Mary, in obedience to Jewish law, went to the Temple in Jerusalem both to be purified 40 days after the birth of her son and to present Jesus to God as her firstborn. The festival was formerly known in the Roman Catholic church as the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary and is now known as the Presentation of the Lord. In the Greek church, it is called Hypapante (Meeting), in reference to Jesus' meeting in the Temple with the aged Simeon. Candlemas is celebrated with a great display of candles. Groundhog Day is actually based on the old belief that if the sun shines on Candlemas Day or if the groundhog sees his shadow when he emerges on this day, six weeks of winter will ensue.
2. I prefer short stories that are more mosaic than straightforward narrative. (In O. Henry, "Desolation" trumps "The High Divide.")
3. The word "mosaic" comes from MUSE (as do music and museum), so maybe a mosaic is what I'm blogging. Pamela's Mosaicings sounds rather like an O.T. patchwork, though I do like Pamela's Museum/Pamela's Music.
P.S. Another big February Birth-Day: W.H. Auden and James Joyce, as well as the American Basketball Association. David Thompson, I swear I will finish your poem THIS YEAR.
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Two Happy Birthdays and One Paradoxical Free-Will Astrology (Cancer)
Today's the birthday of two of my favorite authors: the great Galway Kinnell and novelist/poet/essayist extraordinare Reynolds Price. (Rosacoke and Wesley may be my favorite couple in all Southern fiction).
FREE-WILL ASTROLOGY:
After torrential rains caused flooding in the small town where I live, the Thai restaurant was one of the few downtown businesses that was spared catastrophic damage. The maitre d' explained to me why as I ordered my to-go dinner tonight. "We've always hated our tile floor. It makes the place feel sterile, and it's slippery. People lose their footing if there's even a little wet spot. But when the three feet of floodwater poured in, our tile floor held up. All the stores around us had wooden floors that were destroyed." This is your metaphor of the week, Cancerian. Something in your life that you have regarded as a problem will become a saving grace.
What is going to be an asset that I now see as a liability?
FREE-WILL ASTROLOGY:
After torrential rains caused flooding in the small town where I live, the Thai restaurant was one of the few downtown businesses that was spared catastrophic damage. The maitre d' explained to me why as I ordered my to-go dinner tonight. "We've always hated our tile floor. It makes the place feel sterile, and it's slippery. People lose their footing if there's even a little wet spot. But when the three feet of floodwater poured in, our tile floor held up. All the stores around us had wooden floors that were destroyed." This is your metaphor of the week, Cancerian. Something in your life that you have regarded as a problem will become a saving grace.
What is going to be an asset that I now see as a liability?
What a Birthday!
Two of my all-time favorite writers share this day:
Galway Kinnell, poet extraordinaire.
Reynolds Price, novelist, poet, and essayist.
Rosacoke and Wesley may be my all-time favorite literary couple. I first read A Long and Happy Life when I was 17, the age Rosacoke is in the book. I read it again every 5 years or so, and every time I am struck by Reynold's incredible gift of tone.
Galway Kinnell, poet extraordinaire.
Reynolds Price, novelist, poet, and essayist.
Rosacoke and Wesley may be my all-time favorite literary couple. I first read A Long and Happy Life when I was 17, the age Rosacoke is in the book. I read it again every 5 years or so, and every time I am struck by Reynold's incredible gift of tone.
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