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I came across this blog post today. I’ve been thinking about Pound’s “The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter” and specifically the line “Why should I climb the lookout?”. The comments are hilarious, but not bad or entirely wrong by any means.

http://missoenglish.com/?p=8

Steph says that she’s not in the right mood to understand poetry. However, she interprets the first line exactly as it should be interpreted, “it reminds me of when i was little.” This is just like the narrator recalling when she was little. No great leap, but still. This is what we want from poetry.

Carla similarly discounts her capacity to interpret and understand poetry. She’s right. This is a sad poem. I find it particularly devastating. Perhaps because of the narrator’s resignation, “I grow older,” and lonliness. The spare language somehow evokes great emotion, but this is more or less the program of imagism, so I make no great leap in stating it.

Josh… well, I just dislike most of what I’ve read of Eliot. The good in Prufrock I assume to be Pound’s anyway. Elliot’s work always seems plastic.

I HATE EMILY DICKINSON makes a very funny point about the likely distance to Cho-fu-sa.

When I think about most of the poem’s tone, the short lines, the lonliness, the resignation, and then think about the line, “Why should I climb the lookout?” Is that defiance? I will not give in to longing.

The phoenix are at play on their terrace.
The phoenix are gone, the river flows on alone.
Flowers and grass
Cover over the dark path where lay the dynastic house of the Go.
The bright cloths and bright caps of Shin
Are now the base of old hills.

The Three Mountains fall through the far heaven,
The isle of White Heron splits the two streams apart.
Now the high clouds cover the sun
And I can not see Choan afar
And I am sad.

Ezra Pound

First I stole a panda bear, then we drank malt liquor together. I’m much better at holding my liquor than a panda bear. Detective McNulty makes a mess, and then he has to clean it up. Rhonda is smarter than Jimmy.

http://www.tsaiberspace.net/blog/2007/07/29/wordbook

I just joined the YWCA.  I’ve been told about the relatively new Midtown Y for over a year and it’s always sounded like a nice place with a lot of amenities.  So, I was pleased to learn about the indoor track, the basketball courts and swimming pool.  Just in the last couple of days I run a couple of miles on the track and spent some time doing laps in the pool.  I need to work on developing a schedule and a routine to my workout.

One of the nice things is that my health insurance will pick $20 of the $55 a month membership if I go 12 times a month.  That actually seems a manageable amount, and 20 bucks seems like a decent incentive.  The Midtown Y is about midway between work and home, which will make it rather convenient to get to after work.  There’s also the Uptown Y, which is under a lot of construction and the Downtown Y.  I doubt I’ll ever go to the Downtown one, but once some of the construction is finished I can certainly see going the Uptown Y.

I started re-reading Fitzgerald’s translation of The Odyssey recently.  As I was trolling around Goodreads I came across this sorta cute comment from a young reader…

I ended up loving this book once it was finished. I gave it 4 stars only because it was quite difficult to read. It read like a poem and then like the Bible with the “who knows who and who is related to whom”.

The story takes place after the Trojan War. Odysseus has been captured and missing for many years. Odysseus’s wife is in mourning and refuses to marry another man. In the meantime, Odysseus’s son, Telemarkhos, believes that his father is alive and sets out to find him.

I’m enjoying reading it too.

http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~ddd/poem.htm

My favorite place to hang out is having a craft show on Sunday August 3.    I’ll have to find out what time, but I suspect it’s during the day.  I’ve seen some of the work that’ll be there and I think it’ll be pretty good.

http://www.myspace.com/caffetto

It makes me pretty happy that the Caffetto crew are doing this.  Since I moved to Whittier/East Lowry Hill, I find that I want everything I do here to be interesting and new, while allowing me to roam about the same corner all weekend.

funny shit.  we’ve hit the big time.

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