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I hate to be the ultimate brownnoser, but I think it would be fun to do some Q and A.
First Question, What are the secret echoes that only a melting river knows? How do you pronounce bourgeoise? I say Buj-wah but do you say buj-wee or buj-way? I think the kindle rearranged your Mandelbrot setup was it supposed to be shaped like a Mandelbrot set? With Stone what form do you use? It is almost like an inverted villanelle. You take the refrains from the center of the previous lines. Also, the poem was very sad. On the whole, I spent the morning reading your book out aloud and I had a lot of fun doing so. I am not a sycophant, though I know some linguistic trickery and the like must have gone over my head.
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07-10-2013, 04:28 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-10-2013, 04:29 AM by Leanne.)
1. I'm not a melting river 
2. I don't think bourgeois is in the ms. There's bourgeoisie though. bour-jwa-zee
3. I only noticed the kindle muckup on the alignment when I got a kindle. I'm not happy about that but what can you do? On my PC it looks right. There was no chance in hell my formatting ability would allow me to get close to a Mandelbrot set. It just looks like this:
you gave me a fractal bouquet
stem split thorn split blood
spilt
I
internally refract
eternally
sine i
sinner
I
mirror mazed
reflect split reform split rewind
spit
you gave me root branch leaf
poor sap
4. Stone is a terzanelle. Don't even think about it until you have villanelles sorted -- it will hurt you 
I'd be very disappointed if everyone got everything first read. Why bother reading again then? Thanks -- there are far worse brownnosers than yourself, by the way
It could be worse
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(07-10-2013, 04:28 AM)Leanne Wrote: 1. I'm not a melting river
2. I don't think bourgeois is in the ms. There's bourgeoisie though. bour-jwa-zee
3. I only noticed the kindle muckup on the alignment when I got a kindle. I'm not happy about that but what can you do? On my PC it looks right. There was no chance in hell my formatting ability would allow me to get close to a Mandelbrot set. It just looks like this:
you gave me a fractal bouquet
stem split thorn split blood
spilt
I
internally refract
eternally
sine i
sinner
I
mirror mazed
reflect split reform split rewind
spit
you gave me root branch leaf
poor sap
4. Stone is a terzanelle. Don't even think about it until you have villanelles sorted -- it will hurt you
I'd be very disappointed if everyone got everything first read. Why bother reading again then? Thanks -- there are far worse brownnosers than yourself, by the way
I'm glad this post wasn't received the wrong way. This site has taught me more about poetry than a wealth of English classes. Hopefully, others will read your book.
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07-10-2013, 10:32 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-10-2013, 10:33 AM by billy.)
nothing wrong with brown nosing.
Q: What are the secret echoes that only a melting river knows?
A: The temperature is rising.
Q: How do you pronounce bourgeoise?
A: Bore jzwa
everything after these too question flew over ny head 
Q: how would one go about weighing a fart?
and
Q: what is the boiling point of snot on a planet with a gravity 27 times that of earth
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(07-10-2013, 10:32 AM)billy Wrote: nothing wrong with brown nosing.
Q: What are the secret echoes that only a melting river knows?
A: The temperature is rising.
Q: How do you pronounce bourgeoise?
A: Bore jzwa
everything after these too question flew over ny head
Q: how would one go about weighing a fart?
and
Q: what is the boiling point of snot on a planet with a gravity 27 times that of earth
you would need to capture the gases as they escape the sphincter then use some sort of tool that measures gases which they have. Look up the short story the balloon it has something about that pneumatics or something  by the way I'm Morpheus.
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me bad, this is poetry discussion.
Q: what are the basic rules of poetry?
Q: if a picture paints a thousand words, how many words does it take to paint a picture?
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(07-10-2013, 10:44 AM)billy Wrote: me bad, this is poetry discussion.
Q: what are the basic rules of poetry?
Q: if a picture paints a thousand words, how many words does it take to paint a picture?
What pictures need to be seen when we're still quibbling over the sanctity of marriage. Or who the hell knows about life in a kid's home... The wisest people I knew were poor Mexicans and talking with them I would always feel petty and get a better outlook on life. They were not going to Harvard... I knew a guy who could stop me in my tracks and call me out as a petty gossip.
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i thought this was a q and a thread.
A: read a lot of poetry, write a lot of poetry, edit a lot of poetry.
A: a haiku supposedly paints one, basho did so in 9 syls
old pond . . .
a frog leaps in
water’s sound
though it's a translation.
ezra pound after reading some haiku,
"In a Station of the Metro" by Ezra Pound
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
petals on a wet, black bough.
In the poem, Pound describes a moment in the underground metro station in Paris; Pound suggested that the faces of the individuals in the metro were best put into a poem not with a description but with an "equation". Because of the treatment of the subject's appearance by way of the poem's own visuality, it is considered a quintessential Imagist text.
source, wiki though i got the poem elsewhere and the knowledge of it.
Fleas by anon
Adam
Had 'em.
. i'm sure there are shorter but i'll go with 3
A;
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(07-10-2013, 11:22 AM)billy Wrote: i thought this was a q and a thread.
A: read a lot of poetry, write a lot of poetry, edit a lot of poetry.
A: a haiku supposedly paints one, basho did so in 9 syls
old pond . . .
a frog leaps in
water’s sound
though it's a translation.
ezra pound after reading some haiku,
"In a Station of the Metro" by Ezra Pound
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
petals on a wet, black bough.
In the poem, Pound describes a moment in the underground metro station in Paris; Pound suggested that the faces of the individuals in the metro were best put into a poem not with a description but with an "equation". Because of the treatment of the subject's appearance by way of the poem's own visuality, it is considered a quintessential Imagist text.
source, wiki though i got the poem elsewhere and the knowledge of it.
Fleas by anon
Adam
Had 'em.
. i'm sure there are shorter but i'll go with 3
A;
Pound also went crazy and spread Nazi propaganda from what I have learned... I don't doubt your academic knowledge, but yes this thread should be about Leanne's book. Read stone and imagine feeling that you're a poison fruit I often get overly emotional... 
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Amazon just sent me a recommendation to purchase Ghost Dreaming! (What kind of freak do they think I am?) :Hysterical:
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they want you to have a cake and eat it
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(07-25-2013, 07:34 AM)billy Wrote: they want you to have a cake and eat it
I do love cake . . .
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they never offered it for sale to me 
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(07-25-2013, 07:44 AM)billy Wrote: they never offered it for sale to me
I already own it and that should be on their records. Perhaps they think i would benefit from owning a /second/ copy, in case the internet starts to experience "digital tearing" and "yellowing"?
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