tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6223116282038145469.post2610722830816844105..comments2023-05-07T05:57:16.151-07:00Comments on IMUNURI: a sharp rememberingimunurihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04138257950952544921noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6223116282038145469.post-81047712347658051982010-12-14T05:50:12.133-08:002010-12-14T05:50:12.133-08:00thanks y'all. it is good to be back. you all...thanks y'all. it is good to be back. you all brought up two of my favorite authors.... surely influences! this poem has been waiting to arrive for a long time. xoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6223116282038145469.post-52270951449996089202010-12-10T01:45:33.094-08:002010-12-10T01:45:33.094-08:00Pan, I really feel this in my body, as if you'...Pan, I really feel this in my body, as if you've caught some shared collective visceral memory, or from all the farming folk afore us. This also particularly resonant: <br /><br />"the wedded cells of sky earth and water<br />united in biological matrimony<br />a million times over<br />in each golden stalk, each budded head of wheat<br />that sways in the rosy acreage<br />as one breathing thing<br />which we have come to bow, fell, level<br />and lay down to dry<br />for a snowy night's worth of bread." <br /><br />I've been diving head deep into Wendell Berry's poetry and there's some of his farming body echoing here too in my head, reading yours, as in <strong>The Country of Marriage</strong>Scooter Cascadiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12554870801786274284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6223116282038145469.post-88591738886144130312010-12-09T13:07:56.352-08:002010-12-09T13:07:56.352-08:00great goddess, that's an amazing poem!
Been re...great goddess, that's an amazing poem!<br />Been reading Kingsolver (Prodigal Summer) and this echoes her richness of language -- and powerful specificity. ...<br />Yeah, I'm amazed reading it again. I was going to appreciate the last couplet, but there are so many strong lines, and really this is so coherent as a whole. <br />This sounds like such general praise. But that's where I feel this poem - in its total effect. It reads like a novel...Daniel Arihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10739828417831492075noreply@blogger.com