tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post3209949349413514643..comments2023-12-05T03:34:14.680-05:00Comments on <b>Issa's Untidy Hut</b>: ed markowski: The Essence of HaikuIssa's Untidy Huthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-50223266019670914402009-08-06T18:24:04.281-04:002009-08-06T18:24:04.281-04:00hey Mike you got some "thing" to posit ...hey Mike you got some "thing" to posit about 'avant'<br />well just go to<br /><br />Oscar Lavant<br /><br />http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0505157/bio<br />and<br />here<br /><br />http://video.barnesandnoble.com/search/biography.asp?CTR=72781<br /><br />and<br />here<br /><br />http://www.whosdatedwho.com/celebrities/people/dating/oscar-levant.htm<br /><br />I think I'll crack another Buddha Beer!<br /><br />call me., we'll do lunch!Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-65899933511676542202009-08-06T16:43:55.106-04:002009-08-06T16:43:55.106-04:00I yet have no clue what flarf is!
is flarf those ...I yet have no clue what flarf is!<br /><br />is flarf those paper fluffy things the girls used to shake when doing cheers and jumping up and down?<br /><br />as I recall we called them pom-poms...<br /><br />all flutter and no content!<br /><br />heck..Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-83007190165205510142009-08-06T16:34:08.756-04:002009-08-06T16:34:08.756-04:00Hmn, this is a high hard one, so I'm just gonn...Hmn, this is a high hard one, so I'm just gonna step to one side ...Issa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-79775263268740727242009-08-06T16:21:21.877-04:002009-08-06T16:21:21.877-04:00churl,
don't you recognize Flarf
when it'...churl,<br />don't you recognize Flarf <br />when it's right under<br />your nose?<br /><br />banal = intentional = avant guard<br />your senses man.<br /><br />mike eastonmike eastonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-38559033273605537452009-07-31T08:32:30.591-04:002009-07-31T08:32:30.591-04:00full moon
POWWWWWWW
over-the-fence
getting to
th...full moon<br />POWWWWWWW<br />over-the-fence<br /><br />getting to <br />third base<br />with her<br />difficult<br /><br />much<br />less<br />a<br />Home Run!<br /><br />hey, let us<br />be-in-the-game<br />for the poetry<br />for the heck of it<br />and them shitty hot-dogsEd Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-70232402905325188672009-07-31T08:25:30.615-04:002009-07-31T08:25:30.615-04:00Charl,
No apologies necessary, I've very muc...Charl, <br /><br />No apologies necessary, I've very much felt what you are talking about concerning baseball haiku, so I understand.<br /><br />Ed convinced me otherwise, but there ya go ...<br /><br />DonIssa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-74769491255796083392009-07-30T20:34:20.946-04:002009-07-30T20:34:20.946-04:00I'm sorry but baseball haiku, especially Marko...I'm sorry but baseball haiku, especially Markowski's is a special flavor of banal. <br /><br />People, learn to separate your love of baseball nostalgia from poetry, most poignantly from haiku the poetry that struggles to gain any serious acceptance.<br /><br />You might as well write 5-7-5 haiku.The Charlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16942842863600113697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-29474163158372455962009-07-14T17:32:52.207-04:002009-07-14T17:32:52.207-04:00ed: well, thanks for all great overview ... maybe...ed: well, thanks for all great overview ... maybe I will take a crack at sending this along to efq ... that would bring me full circle from loving baseball to hating baseball poems to ...<br /><br />Who knows.<br /><br />DonIssa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-58087746740129070062009-07-11T16:34:21.372-04:002009-07-11T16:34:21.372-04:00don, ed b., greg, jim h,
charles, jack, john
and l...don, ed b., greg, jim h,<br />charles, jack, john<br />and lisa...<br /><br />thanks for turning this pop-up into a homerun. <br /><br />as for the pinchbook, i've got six left, three are spoken for.<br /><br />gave most of them away last summer at the chauruaqua institution prior to our presentation. the film of that presentation is available on chautauqua's "FORA TV"<br />site.<br /><br />contact don for my email address. the last three are free.<br /><br />lastly, don, you might want to submit this post to the elysian fields quarterly. efq is a great magazine, features top notch writing and comes at baseball from a realistic cultural approach rather than the romanticized approach that's so common.<br />ed markowskied markowskinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-61425344663460289362009-07-10T15:14:53.502-04:002009-07-10T15:14:53.502-04:00Ed B, thanks for the Mickey Vernon - and reminding...Ed B, thanks for the Mickey Vernon - and reminding us all about the lack of integration for such a long time ...<br /><br />Jay and Jim, glad you dug the "Baseball Canto" and thanks, Greg, for pointing Jim to where he can get a copy of ed m's "pop up"<br /><br />Lisa, thanks, your remarks, means a lot - as you may imagine, those things we wake up with on our mind at 3 am really have a life of their own, the post almost having written itself (as with so much of the best of any kind of writing) -Issa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-11241774584758266282009-07-10T07:13:40.883-04:002009-07-10T07:13:40.883-04:00Jim - looks like you can get "pop up" st...Jim - looks like you can get "pop up" straight from the author himself... here's the info from tinywords --<br /><br />http://tinywords.com/2004/12/another-new-chapbook-pop-up-by.phpGreghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15344808703550376121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-52314335012656630952009-07-09T19:41:05.914-04:002009-07-09T19:41:05.914-04:00Hi Don,
Nicely written post - the part about Ed&#...Hi Don,<br /><br />Nicely written post - the part about Ed's haiku and where it took you, your candidness about hating baseball poems, the memory the haiku evoked - I really dug reading this, how it flowed, what was revealed as it went along. Thanks for sharing this with us.<br /><br />peace.L. Espenmillerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02610879020821279899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-83496407107950181302009-07-09T15:25:04.886-04:002009-07-09T15:25:04.886-04:00Mickey just died last year...
http://www.washingt...Mickey just died last year...<br /><br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/25/AR2008092504101.html<br /><br />old theme-song/refrain<br /><br />Washington:<br />first in war<br />first in peace<br />last in The American League<br /><br />both the Deadskins and the Senators stunk!<br /><br />and both where very last teams to have a black ball player on their team<br /><br />after all, D.C. is/was a Southern-Dixie TownEd Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-62359511425624309122009-07-09T13:19:15.145-04:002009-07-09T13:19:15.145-04:00That Ferlinghetti Canto is tremendous!
So, wher...That Ferlinghetti Canto is tremendous! <br /><br />So, where can I get this Markowski book? I've stumbled around the whirled wide web and can't find "Tribe Press" anywhere and Mr. Tripi's site was last updated (it seems) about 7 years ago. I'd like to put some money (however modest)in Mr. Markowski's pocket and his book on my shelf.<br /><br />Help?<br /><br />Thanks...Jim H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08221390745888733656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-23928028246053344722009-07-09T11:14:16.934-04:002009-07-09T11:14:16.934-04:00on of my favorite posts thus far! amazing haiku, ...on of my favorite posts thus far! amazing haiku, and great to read Baseball Canto again! thanks!John Grochalskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13150630637644393375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-18159888520906925682009-07-09T07:17:04.361-04:002009-07-09T07:17:04.361-04:00What have you boys been up to while I've been ...What <i>have</i> you boys been up to while I've been napping?<br /><br />A sandlot game is breaking out ... Ed, where's that fungo bat, time to figure out whose up first - <br /><br />In case we need <a href="http://www.cosmicbaseball.com/" rel="nofollow">a few extra players</a> ...<br /><br />My old man took me to the Polo Grounds to see the Mets take on the returning Dodgers, 62 or 63, he got up in the top of the 2nd or 3rd inning to get a beer, coke and a couple of dogs and by the time he waded through the line the Dodgers had scored 6 runs and were still batting.<br /><br /><br />God, how we loved those awful Mets ...<br /><br />Saw Maris hit 47 and 48 in 61 to the right field porch in Yankee Stadium where we were sitting ... but it was Yogi Berra's homer that won the game that day.<br /><br />Ed, ed, and Jim, thanks for the great memories, <br /><br />Charles, you can see you are surrounded by people who are possessed -<br /><br />Jack, thanks for the imagery - here's Ferlinghetti's <a href="http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/baseball-canto.html" rel="nofollow"> Baseball Canto</a>.<br /><br />Greg, glad especially you liked the story - I never trusted any adult, particularly my parents, after that day ...<br /><br />Scott, great little ku, feels like it could have been written in an orphanage in Baltimore, substitute horse for whale meat, and a young George Herman steps up to the tin pie plate ...Issa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-26945869996964598242009-07-09T03:27:33.212-04:002009-07-09T03:27:33.212-04:00one of the very few baseball ku i've ever like...one of the very few baseball ku i've ever liked:<br /><br />After eating whalemeat<br />orphans and a doctor start<br />a baseball game.<br /><br />-Saito Sanki (trans by Makoto Ueda)Scott Metzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10742923990169932977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-90673105657956563862009-07-08T20:44:52.179-04:002009-07-08T20:44:52.179-04:00when The Yankees played the Senators I WAS THERE.....when The Yankees played the Senators I WAS THERE...<br /><br />with score card in hand....<br /><br />when the game was at 2 pm I and a cpl of friends got to Griffith Stadium at 10 am<br /><br />to sit down on the bench by the dug-out to watch Vernon, Gil Cohen, Eddie Yost, Jim Lemon etc show up and warm up<br /><br />and the Yanks would also show early.. I had a program with The Micks and Yogi's an other IMMORTALS signatures on <br /><br />and on other side Clyde Klutz and onter Senators...<br /><br /><br />when I got back from Greece my parents had thrown out all of my 50' stuff... the poems the autiographs, letters, etc so they cld use my trunk to store thier sstupid fuckin tax returns!<br /><br />anyway nothing like seeing The Mick trot out to center field wearing a knee brace on each knee and limping...<br /><br />man... he could hit lefty handed and right handed and one humongus homerun hit the score board 2.3 miles out and near the National Boh guy with the one eye they afixed a "ball"<br /><br /><br />now when ever I go up to The City I have a drink with Warner and we talk about his dad... etc.Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-71135246085146097882009-07-08T20:30:40.696-04:002009-07-08T20:30:40.696-04:00Ed Markowski's got a way with words very few p...Ed Markowski's got a way with words very few poets can match. that's a touching story, Don -- can see where the haiku would bring that back.<br /><br />Ed and Jim - thanks for sharing those B-more memories. can still remember walking through the city to a game at Memorial Stadium, though every day, driving past Camden Yards, the old one gets harder and harder to picture.Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15344808703550376121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-66274273822376416462009-07-08T20:29:12.780-04:002009-07-08T20:29:12.780-04:00ed b.
1996, espn classic was showing the old home...ed b.<br /><br />1996, espn classic was showing the old homerun derby duels.<br /><br />the show was filmed at wrigley field in los angeles. yes, there was a wrigley field in L.A.for those<br />who may not have known that.<br /><br />saw the duel between mickey mantle & mickey vernon.<br /><br />i recall mantle saying, "wel that mickey vernon sure is one great <br />hitter."<br /><br />the bizarre twist in all of this is, as i recall, i closed my eyes & i'd of sworn ronnie reagan had pulled up outside the stadium with his twenty mule team & put on mantle's yankee uniform or perhaps they had dubbed in reagan's voice when mantle was talking. yes, it was odd, very odd & i was stone cold sober.<br /><br />ed markowskied markowskinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-22557868364000275352009-07-08T13:50:36.537-04:002009-07-08T13:50:36.537-04:00Went to my first game at SF Giants new ballpark wi...Went to my first game at SF Giants new ballpark with Lawrence Ferlinghetti. L.F. once wrote poem with old Giants second baseman Tito Fuentes in it.<br /><br />Liked it when Spicer, "God is a big white baseball", and Whalen, talking to Spicer I believe, wrote about baseball. <br /><br />Agree with you, however, its hard to get away with baseball poems, tho this pop up poem brings baseball memories back.<br /><br />Tom Clark's book, "Blue", great cover of Vida Blue winding up.Jack Crimminshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17276358156767105900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-31095049510713072462009-07-08T12:47:13.899-04:002009-07-08T12:47:13.899-04:00Ed: My mom grew up on the NE side of Balmer. My ...Ed: My mom grew up on the NE side of Balmer. My great aunt ran a little Sicilian restaurant on the east side (near Albemarle St & Eastern Ave). My very first major league ball game (1953?) was at the old Memorial Stadium. Fond memories....Jim H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08221390745888733656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-70570505896213498542009-07-08T12:47:07.366-04:002009-07-08T12:47:07.366-04:00I've regretted at times not liking baseball. T...I've regretted at times not liking baseball. There a lot of neat metaphors about the game. But I never played it growing up and I just can't get thrilled about it.Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-88184715042247857142009-07-08T11:11:30.267-04:002009-07-08T11:11:30.267-04:00ere's BB for you in Baltimore..
my grand-dad...ere's BB for you in Baltimore..<br /><br />my grand-dad, Harry Baker (not "Home Run Baker),played baseball with the St. Mary's team w The Babe. <br /><br /><br />both he and George Ruth were signed to play for the Baltimore team... so, while shagging fly balls my grandfather twisted and broke his ankle in a hole out in the outfield.. so ending his professional BB career... so, being friends of the Ruth's The Babe's dad owned a saloon on East Baltimore Street and<br /><br />fronted my grandfather the money to open his own saloon with his father the place was called "Harry's" <br /><br />East Baltimore was fun in the 50's and before...<br /><br />My grandfather's wife they called her "Aunt Fanny" was first woman to drive an automobile in B'more...<br /><br />she was close friend of Sophie Tucker both ladies were "the last of the Red Hot Moma's"<br /> <br />now, what is left of BB and other professional sports? <br /><br />... heck at nearly 70 I (still) play stick-ball with a pink "spaldine"<br /><br />and<br />a broom handle with the neighbors' 10 and under's<br /><br />that last pitch<br />P O W!<br />over the moonEd Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-84657244609643477312009-07-08T10:18:58.961-04:002009-07-08T10:18:58.961-04:00Don:
Yeah, that little verse is a powerful one.
...Don:<br /><br />Yeah, that little verse is a powerful one.<br /><br />Ed:<br /><br />Mickey Vernon's fungo bat? Nice! I can't match that, but I do have a picture of my daughter hugging Torii Hunter.<br />---<br /><br />The greatest baseball player anagram ever: Scott Baker, pitcher for the MN Twins, whose anagram is Rocket Bats. And he earned last night against those damned Yankees.Jim H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08221390745888733656noreply@blogger.com