I never gather Duncan. I try to read the poems assigned, I never get them. I buy some of his books, don’t think I’ll crack them. I pay $300 for this class, I’m not sure why. I pay it in installments once a month, and I get shy about my childish checks with purple swirlies on them and a Comic front. I think I should have soberer checks like a real poet.<\/p>\n
Trying to contribute. I translate a poem of mine into Olde English. Enjoy this exercise. I’m asked to read it aloud, a fairly strugglish effort. Seems okay. Better in Olde English than it was in New. Lisa picks out phrases in our poems. Well, should I toss the rest away, enshrine that phrase? Who knows.<\/p>\n
I learn some techniques, puzzle over leading vowels. I want craft but I don’t want it. I am interested in the other students. I’m interested in shaping the interactions. The environment is so subdued, inhibiting. I ask a lot of questions. One dominates. She seems suitably irritable for a teacher of poetry. Poetry teachers swimming daily in bad words. THere are no highlights. I observe the women’s clothes. I’m familiar with an odd fact or two, like Ian Hamilton Finlay’s death this year or fallout on the Hanford Reservation.<\/p>\n
Somewhere I don’t bloom. People very sparing with email, commentary, keeping their vast opinions to themselves. Closetsfull of opinions, jamming in on the shelves.<\/p>\n
One of my thematic exercises highlights the word Intimacy.<\/p>\n
I go to Bernadette Mayer’s reading at St. Mark’s. Appreciate it. I read Winter’s Day<\/em> from cover to cover on my 2nd try.<\/p>\n I drop Ashbery’s name a couple of times, get a small sound of acknowledgement from Lisa, but no more.<\/p>\n Incomprehensible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I never gather Duncan. I try to read the poems assigned, I never get them. I buy some of his books, don’t think I’ll crack them. I pay $300 for this class, I’m not sure why. I pay it in installments once a month, and I get shy about my childish checks with purple swirlies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,39,15,13],"tags":[89,218,305,217,357,356,216,220,42,188,358],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-narrative","category-people","category-self","tag-ashbery","tag-class","tag-clothes","tag-duncan","tag-email","tag-finlay","tag-intimacy","tag-mayer","tag-poetry","tag-women","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/80pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/80pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/80pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/80pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/80pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/80pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/80pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/80pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/80pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}