tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post4629010768071236139..comments2023-12-05T03:34:14.680-05:00Comments on <b>Issa's Untidy Hut</b>: Mary Oliver: EvidenceIssa's Untidy Huthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-61149364037228909472009-04-27T07:38:00.000-04:002009-04-27T07:38:00.000-04:00Ed, yes, we are all mostly rowing in one direction...Ed, yes, we are all mostly rowing in one direction or another, with the falls impending - I do love those who row <I>towards</I> ...<br /><br />Brian, the Li Po poem by Oliver surprised me and it shouldn't have ...<br /><br />Jim, the "with some difficulty" phrase is really when the hook takes ... my second time through, I actually laughed out loud, totally inappropriately, but at the conjurer's trick and not the image/idea ...<br /><br />Charles, it's like the little bit of grit in the craw, being worked into a pearl ... do oysters have craws?Issa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-89013086824933874892009-04-25T13:57:00.000-04:002009-04-25T13:57:00.000-04:00I absolutely believe that great writers, poets and...I absolutely believe that great writers, poets and otherwise, revisit certain themes over and over. It takes a lifetime sometimes to understand something well enough to truly write about it.Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-89932660688059853312009-04-24T15:01:00.000-04:002009-04-24T15:01:00.000-04:00Sold to the misfit librarian in black...
I suspec...Sold to the misfit librarian in black...<br /><br />I suspect your Sunday service will be the kind I can really get behind - can't hardly wait!<br /><br />LAVAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-31066177201142020562009-04-24T11:50:00.000-04:002009-04-24T11:50:00.000-04:00That phrase "...with some difficulty..." is like a...That phrase "...with some difficulty..." is like a little land mine. <br /><br />Your description of Oliver's authenticity reminds me of a line from a Bob Dylan song: "...true like ice like fire."Jim H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08221390745888733656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-30416062540258017532009-04-24T11:06:00.000-04:002009-04-24T11:06:00.000-04:00I have not read all of Oliver's works, but wheneve...I have not read all of Oliver's works, but whenever I pick up a book I always enjoy what I find.<br /><br />The shifts in tone in Li Po and The Moon are very nice.Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11632328198420140293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-82564857671654930302009-04-24T09:06:00.000-04:002009-04-24T09:06:00.000-04:00Mary Oliver!
You too?
/I fell out
of a dinghy
on...Mary Oliver!<br /><br />You too?<br /><br />/I fell out<br />of a dinghy<br />once<br /><br />was reaching for an oar<br />that fell in the water..<br /><br />next thing I know<br />while standing there<br /><br />the dinghy goes over<br />the falls...<br /><br />heck... I could have drownded and died.... or worst!<br /><br />this was in 1957 at Seneca Lake just above Great Falls<br /><br /><br />EdAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com