Orgasmic Angina
September 5, 2008
Via an entertaining article on writing about poetry and the admitted awesomeness of Keats comes this breathless and little-deathless blurb:
“Only rarely do lay readers experience poems as a cross between an orgasm and a heart attack.” —David Orr, the New York Times
I’m not only happy not to be a mere lay reader, but proud of myself for avoiding the obvious South Park-ian jokes that come to mind.
Also of note, The Page, a site featuring a constantly updated list of interesting two word extracts from literary reviews (critical blurbs that are sometimes a kind of analytical haiku in and of themselves) and links to recent poems of note.
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September 5th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
That helps direct my reading choices this weekend.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:10 am
Hey, I hadn’t realized this is where all the action was. I’ve been checking Ruminate infrequently but not here in ages. Good to have ya back on the radar, it makes the net a much better place.
September 9th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Yes. Sadly, what people want to read is what I write/wrote over there, but what I want to write, when I do, is over here.