Re: Goodbye

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That's a good poem.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 11-29-14 12:50 AM
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I particularly like this line:

Chemotherapy is as brutal as the cancers it doesn't cure.

Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 11-29-14 1:14 AM
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Fuck you, clown normally ageing prostate.


Posted by: Kreskin | Link to this comment | 11-29-14 4:15 AM
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I thought we didn't have to pretend to like Seidel anymore because he said or wrote something arguably sexist in that NYT Magazine profile a couple of years ago.


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 11-29-14 8:21 AM
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5

Nope, you're still on the hook.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 11-29-14 8:43 AM
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Damn it. I still haven't caught up with the Times' latest "We saw this on Twitter! We're not old! We'll never die!" recommendations.


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 11-29-14 12:14 PM
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NMM to Mark Strand. Very sad.


Posted by: jms | Link to this comment | 11-29-14 12:39 PM
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Does is poem remind anyone else of
"Self-Portrait in Tyvek Windbreaker"?


Posted by: Count Fosco | Link to this comment | 11-29-14 5:21 PM
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8 is really not playing fair. Merrill's pure virtuosity, light years from anything I would write or feel, is always a marvel. (But it's also sentimental for me because I had an old email pen pal who sent me his poems, inappropriate, unsolicited, at rough times in a rough year, and learning to appreciate them was part of that year's rapid-fire maturation process.)

I never quite learned to love Strand but am grateful that I made it to a workshop with him & Patrizia Cavalli at Chicago-- although I have to remind myself once a year or so that it really did happen and wasn't something I dreamed, since my memory of that year is of an undifferentiated black pit. (Different year!)


Posted by: lurid keyaki | Link to this comment | 11-29-14 9:37 PM
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