tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post3311312952507624570..comments2023-12-05T03:34:14.680-05:00Comments on <b>Issa's Untidy Hut</b>: Wendell Berry, Madam Marie, and the Summarize Monsieur Proust in Two Words (Or Less) ContestIssa's Untidy Huthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-59897043985541165892008-07-14T06:27:00.000-04:002008-07-14T06:27:00.000-04:00Jeffrey:Glad to hear you liked the Berry interview...Jeffrey:<BR/><BR/>Glad to hear you liked the Berry interview. It is amazing how such a back to basics guy is so very insightful about what might save us in the future, in a very practical way. He always seems spot on. <BR/><BR/>I'll have to take another trip through "Snowy Fields." I reread "Branch" sometime last year and was happy that it had lost none of its personal appeal for me and its power. I've read some of Wright's early letters and the developing relationship between them was, indeed, mutually beneficial.<BR/><BR/>DonIssa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-61885549921905729352008-07-13T21:24:00.000-04:002008-07-13T21:24:00.000-04:00Dear Don:Thank you for sharing the Wendell Berry i...Dear Don:<BR/><BR/>Thank you for sharing the Wendell Berry interview. I particularly liked his comments concerning a "cultural landscape". That seems to me the essence of developing a sense of "place"; quite intriguing. The entire interview was excellent. <BR/><BR/>A past posting prompted me to reread two books, "The Branch Will Not Break" by James Wright and "Silence In The Snowy Fields" by Robert Bly. They were certainly interesting to read back-to-back. I have a photocopy of Bly's graduate thesis from the University of Iowa, submitted in l956. The only poem from that manuscript to have reached "Silence In The Snowy Fields" was "Where We Must Look For Help", a rather famous and good poem I think. The rest of the manuscript is quite different and un-Bly like . . . So Bly made radical changes in his thinking and poetic approach from l956 to l962, when "Silence In The Snowy Fields" was published. I would guess that James Wright had a lot to do with this development; Wright's book "The Branch Will Not Break" was published in l963, a year after Bly's. Their poetic collaboration, or companionship, resulted in two very wonderful books of poetry.<BR/><BR/>Thank you again for your intellectual promptings via "The Hut"!<BR/><BR/>Best,<BR/><BR/><BR/>JefferyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-74958474956437387232008-07-11T05:55:00.000-04:002008-07-11T05:55:00.000-04:00Charles:Well, when I read your postings at Razored...Charles:<BR/><BR/>Well, when I read your postings at <I>Razored Zen</I> I think the same thing. How does he have the time to get it all done? And to think about doing a little mag, too - sheer folly, but folly can be a beautiful thing!<BR/><BR/>The important thing for me with the mag is, to the best of ability, to remember that there are people, poets, on the other end of the line and a kind word goes a long way. It takes time to say something folks on the subscribers' list but, whenever I don't, I question why I'm doing this in the first place. That usually gets me back on track. I've noticed that mags that send out form letters (with the exception of the big presses) usually don't last very long. Your karma running over your dogma, I say.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the kind words. Glad you liked the poems.<BR/><BR/>DonIssa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-77923031218473548812008-07-10T12:13:00.000-04:002008-07-10T12:13:00.000-04:00I sympathize with all the work you must have to do...I sympathize with all the work you must have to do as a small press editor. Several times I've thought of starting a magazine, but the work load always scared me off. I'm glad there are folks such as yourself who are willing to do it, though.<BR/><BR/>Sorry to hear about Madam Marie. <BR/><BR/>Great samples across the board.Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.com