Thursday, February 28, 2008
You get a quickie tonight—I want to go study my poetry book so I can have something to write about tomorrow (ternary feet). I'll give you a clue about what's special about the last paragraph on the Feb 26 post. Look at the next-to-last paragraph. Now see if you can figure it out! No winners yet. Several of you invitees are writers—it should be obvious.
I got a newsletter today that lands in my in-box occasionally. It's from a friend from back when I wrote for Gateway 2000 a decade ago. He and his wife has one of the highest class sites I know of. They sell top-of-the line china and other tableware. Small Island Trader. Jim and Alexandra are good people. Tell them I sent you.
BTW—thank you to the person who commented a day or so ago, coming to poor Jack Riepe's defense. Believe me, Jack can defend himself pretty well, but I always appreciate input from a total stranger, even muttered imprecations.
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Dear Rogers:
One may study the presentation of poetry, its parameters and conventions. But one must feel poetry to write it... Or at least to write it well. I am fond of the Jacobean prose of fantasy writer E.R. Eddison, who in his Zimiamvian Trilogy writes:
"I'll have gold and silver for my delight,
And a bed made wide for luxury.
And In the low of the flickering firelight,
I will have thee."
Simple imagery, powerful sentiment. Basic needs, and a bit more. Verse for motorcyclists.
I'll be watching this blog with interest.
Yours,
Muca Fignotti
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