tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749059681475538860.post8506258059792071676..comments2023-06-01T12:02:03.935-04:00Comments on Poets.net: Contest: Hollis Summers Poetry Prize 2009Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749059681475538860.post-4760721855325732532008-06-18T21:15:00.000-04:002008-06-18T21:15:00.000-04:00"Hangover is a nightmare from which I'm trying to ..."Hangover is a nightmare from which I'm trying to awake.<BR/><BR/>History is a hangover I'm trying to sleep off.<BR/><BR/>Bloomsbury is a pretence I'm trying to throw off."<BR/><BR/>Pretty clever, actually.Gary B. Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749059681475538860.post-57158999516972230302008-06-17T16:27:00.000-04:002008-06-17T16:27:00.000-04:00Oh, bugger off.Oops. I promised I'd behave. Sorry....Oh, bugger off.<BR/><BR/>Oops. I promised I'd behave. Sorry.Gary B. Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749059681475538860.post-79130351743827933422008-06-17T11:44:00.000-04:002008-06-17T11:44:00.000-04:00Thank you.It's hard to know who you're replying to...Thank you.<BR/><BR/>It's hard to know who you're replying to and what they meant.<BR/><BR/>I didn't catch the reference, but I swore off Joyce 30 years ago.<BR/><BR/>I just like the pub crawls.Gary B. Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749059681475538860.post-7251690527816664562008-06-17T11:35:00.000-04:002008-06-17T11:35:00.000-04:00"History is a nightmare, from which I'm trying to ..."History is a nightmare, from which I'm trying to awake" --James Joyce<BR/><BR/>The modernist Bloomsbury Circle, which included Pound and Eliot as American members, helped launch the career of James Joyce.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749059681475538860.post-26627162830380339912008-06-17T11:25:00.000-04:002008-06-17T11:25:00.000-04:00Bloomsday (think James Joyce), not Bloomsbury.Bloomsday (think James Joyce), not Bloomsbury.Gary B. Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749059681475538860.post-31274247963974705052008-06-17T06:42:00.000-04:002008-06-17T06:42:00.000-04:00Hangover is a nightmare from which I'm trying to a...Hangover is a nightmare from which I'm trying to awake.<BR/><BR/>History is a hangover I'm trying to sleep off.<BR/><BR/>Bloomsbury is a pretence I'm trying to throw off.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749059681475538860.post-31802798106320621282008-06-16T11:45:00.000-04:002008-06-16T11:45:00.000-04:00Besides, it's Bloomsday, after all.Besides, it's Bloomsday, after all.Gary B. Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749059681475538860.post-55854679044704140602008-06-16T11:38:00.000-04:002008-06-16T11:38:00.000-04:00"The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which ..."The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken."<BR/><BR/>- Homer<BR/><BR/>Tomorrow I'll be sober but you still wont be any fun.Gary B. Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749059681475538860.post-6632951606897077812008-06-16T11:20:00.000-04:002008-06-16T11:20:00.000-04:00And you're drunk.And you're drunk.Christopher Woodmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03122544949410411452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749059681475538860.post-80668062779582122008-06-16T09:17:00.000-04:002008-06-16T09:17:00.000-04:00You're no fun at all, Christopher.Happy Bloomsday....You're no fun at all, Christopher.<BR/><BR/>Happy Bloomsday.Gary B. Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749059681475538860.post-47302149954218456202008-06-16T08:52:00.000-04:002008-06-16T08:52:00.000-04:00Gary,Is this really you speaking here? Because if ...Gary,<BR/>Is this really you speaking here? Because if it is I was certainly wrong to ask your forgiveness earlier---our original spat was bang on.<BR/><BR/>And I also remember your first words on the site--and that I tried to help you overcome then.<BR/><BR/>What a shock to find out that you just want to roughhouse after all. And you've been here for awhile too, and I have just stood up for you elsewhere, explaining that your roughhouse was genius!<BR/><BR/>Well. you're not using it to any positive effect that I can see here, and I'm beginning to wonder why you bother.<BR/><BR/>So which Gary is it going to be, then? Which one can we build on?<BR/><BR/>ChristopherChristopher Woodmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03122544949410411452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749059681475538860.post-47474994963227967982008-06-16T08:46:00.000-04:002008-06-16T08:46:00.000-04:00Gary,Thank goodness you're not Dylan Thomas!I woul...Gary,<BR/><BR/>Thank goodness you're not Dylan Thomas!<BR/><BR/>I would have been cussed!<BR/><BR/>And severely!<BR/><BR/>"La de da?"<BR/><BR/>"La de da" to you, sir.<BR/><BR/>If it's words you want, you shall have them!<BR/><BR/>Grrrrr.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749059681475538860.post-34649399177406298232008-06-15T22:27:00.000-04:002008-06-15T22:27:00.000-04:00'Unfortunately', that is.Isn't this fun? This word...'Unfortunately', that is.<BR/><BR/>Isn't this fun? This word stuff, I mean.Gary B. Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749059681475538860.post-79963258724717563982008-06-15T21:27:00.000-04:002008-06-15T21:27:00.000-04:00Books require only reading to be effective.You wil...Books require only reading to be effective.You will learn someday what communication is. What I just read sure ain't it.<BR/><BR/>If I was Dylan Thomas I'd say: "Fuck you!"<BR/><BR/>Unfortunatley, I'm just me, so I'll say: La de da.Gary B. Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749059681475538860.post-75205553632562272172008-06-15T21:02:00.000-04:002008-06-15T21:02:00.000-04:00gary,Obtuse means 'thick' or 'slow at understandin...gary,<BR/><BR/>Obtuse means 'thick' or 'slow at understanding.'<BR/><BR/>Oh yea, I did mean obtuse.<BR/><BR/>You said 'communication.' Conversation at Thanksgiving is 'communication.' 'Books' require 'recognition' to be effective. So, yea, 'recognition' is part of the equation, not merely 'communication.'<BR/><BR/>Are you still at a loss?<BR/><BR/>This might help you. Dogs can 'communicate' with humans, but if a dog doesn't 'recognize' his master, the pup will be lost!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749059681475538860.post-47284275730851986062008-06-15T20:12:00.000-04:002008-06-15T20:12:00.000-04:00First, Uncle Lyle actually reads BOOKS. Not talkin...First, Uncle Lyle actually reads BOOKS. Not talking Thanksgiving dinner here.<BR/><BR/>Secondly, obtuse means dull. Did you mean abstruse? If so, well, yeah...I'm a poet, right?Gary B. Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749059681475538860.post-9798304961919143832008-06-15T19:41:00.000-04:002008-06-15T19:41:00.000-04:00Gary,Why is arguing on the internet difficult?Wher...Gary,<BR/><BR/>Why is arguing on the internet difficult?<BR/><BR/>Where is it easier?<BR/><BR/>"Communication, not recognition." Yea, sure it's about communication, but that's a broad brush. Obviously, 'recognition' is what makes wider 'communication' possible. If this was all about 'communicating to Uncle Lyle over dinner, then we all could all pack up and go home; we wouldn't need poetry or books or any of it. It sounds to me like you're being intentionally obtuse.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749059681475538860.post-20869063422085690072008-06-15T17:48:00.000-04:002008-06-15T17:48:00.000-04:00on the train.on the train.Gary B. Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749059681475538860.post-63270090847372936322008-06-15T17:47:00.001-04:002008-06-15T17:47:00.001-04:00a conversation with someone passing bya conversation with someone passing byGary B. Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749059681475538860.post-21609105095885516802008-06-15T17:47:00.000-04:002008-06-15T17:47:00.000-04:00standing on the station platform havingstanding on the station platform havingGary B. Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749059681475538860.post-30578597540343160512008-06-15T17:46:00.001-04:002008-06-15T17:46:00.001-04:00trying to debate on the internet is liketrying to debate on the internet is likeGary B. Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749059681475538860.post-20512214186862730872008-06-15T17:46:00.000-04:002008-06-15T17:46:00.000-04:00And I don't mind saying thatAnd I don't mind saying thatGary B. Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749059681475538860.post-45417292882746065792008-06-15T17:13:00.000-04:002008-06-15T17:13:00.000-04:00Oops. Wrong thread. :-)I meant to say:Poetry is ab...Oops. Wrong thread. :-)<BR/><BR/>I meant to say:<BR/><BR/>Poetry is about communication, not recognition. 'Consumer advocacy'? You mean 'peer admiration', don't you? Do the average people of the world give a fig about who won what prize?<BR/><BR/>I write for Uncle Lyle. So should you.Gary B. Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749059681475538860.post-14501869884325508582008-06-15T17:09:00.000-04:002008-06-15T17:09:00.000-04:00Are scraps of papyrus and linen a book or not?Are ...Are scraps of papyrus and linen a book or not?<BR/><BR/>Are manuscripts copied by scribes for hundreds of years reprints?<BR/><BR/>Immortality is found in the words, not on the paper.Gary B. Fitzgeraldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17919492445467135425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5749059681475538860.post-50512944790463940082008-06-15T09:37:00.000-04:002008-06-15T09:37:00.000-04:00Gary,Exactly. "Why this obsession with contests?"...Gary,<BR/><BR/>Exactly. "Why this obsession with contests?" <BR/><BR/>Look around you, Gary. You are not a poet unless you've won a 'contest,' and many of them are not fair contests--they raise money so friends can publish each other, win prizes from each other, get teaching jobs, get anthologized, 'judge' each other, which leads to a climate of blurbing and praising and fear of honest Criticism--which is why the non-specialist pays no attention to poetry, which cuts it off from the mainstream culture, which feeds the downward cycle of the whole enterprise.<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, the cream does NOT rise to the top, because there's too much crap to wade through and if that crap is getting prizes, it will only get worse.<BR/><BR/>What's wrong with a little consumer advocacy? Why does it bug you so much?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com