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?
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