tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28238816.post8377187509221457847..comments2024-02-24T11:28:02.310+00:00Comments on Poetry in Progress: Roethke and KunitzMarion McCreadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04657757253873577465noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28238816.post-77244033794981231122011-08-09T14:11:24.698+01:002011-08-09T14:11:24.698+01:00wow, the best writers really do steal, can see so ...wow, the best writers really do steal, can see so many bits of Plath's poems in this! I really am going to have to pick up a Roethke collection at some point!Marion McCreadyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04657757253873577465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28238816.post-505257078411623902011-08-08T22:14:04.822+01:002011-08-08T22:14:04.822+01:00I think I hear more of Roethke than Lowell in Plat...I think I hear more of Roethke than Lowell in Plath. And they talk similarly about their German fathers (though perhaps unfairly in both cases). He was truly a wonderful poet who isn't read much anymore, I think, except for a few anthology pieces. Did you happen to come across the sequence called "The Lost Son"? Very Plath-like to my ears....<br /><br />http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=l&p=c&a=p&ID=369&c=230James Owenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07614935078978354375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28238816.post-8481496605959691532011-08-08T10:20:02.715+01:002011-08-08T10:20:02.715+01:00glad you find it so :)glad you find it so :)Marion McCreadyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04657757253873577465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28238816.post-48326556184672871892011-08-08T07:53:24.595+01:002011-08-08T07:53:24.595+01:00Really useful pointer here Marion - thanks!Really useful pointer here Marion - thanks!Forthvalley scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05128591514560815991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28238816.post-53398211200495108212011-08-07T20:43:40.287+01:002011-08-07T20:43:40.287+01:00duncan, the Bly book sounds right up my street. I ...duncan, the Bly book sounds right up my street. I did a search on it and came across this enlightening (to me) article on the concept of 'parataxis' and Bly's 'leap' -<br /> http://writing.colostate.edu/gallery/parataxis/ward.htm<br /><br />in my recent poems I've been playing about with this kind of associative leapingMarion McCreadyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04657757253873577465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28238816.post-9733497984370811462011-08-07T19:58:47.330+01:002011-08-07T19:58:47.330+01:00I've just got hold of Robert Bly's "L...I've just got hold of Robert Bly's "Leaping Poetry". His argument is that rationality and fear of the unconscious has been destructive for poetry, and he hails the Spanish poets, Lorca and the Surrealists. To me it seems a bit like out of the frying pan and into the fire. Extreme approaches both. I tend to the happy medium. But I guess there's nothing very sensational in being a happy medium.Danish doghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08020527943859347043noreply@blogger.com