Open Poetry #17 |
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POETS AND PLACES, Part II |
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Glenn Logan Member
since 2001-10-10
Posts 111Virginia |
All of which is very interesting, although I must admit I do not care what Samuel Butler - or dozens of others, for all that - has to confess, now that he's gone the way of all flesh. In America, Mark Twain, beginning our literature, according to Ernest, and genial to the end, long ago sailed his last stern wheeler down river to the eternal sea, and so joined the silent majority. But Huck Finn lives on, forever rebellious, along with Tom, The Duke, Aunt Sarah, and Jim. And the Mississippi never flowed more smoothly than when they were bringing that damn raft in. I worry more for Sherwood Anderson's magnificent "grotesques," and wonder if they're still alive in "Winesburg," and if teachers still wave delicate dove-like hands now that Windy McPherson's boy is no longer there. In the Appalachians, at Asheville (aka Altamont), North Carolina, do boys still get paid in "jelly roll," and hide behind graveyard marbles, now that Thomas Wolfe's Angel has brought him home? In the Midwest, have we lost our Chicago of the stockyards, of bustle, brawn and lust? Frank Norris, are you there? Has your slaughter made it any less of a Jungle? Theodore Dreiser, are you still with us? And how's your sister, Carrie? And has noble Nelson Algren joined them yet, walking on the wild side? (POEM CONTINUES: SEE PART III) |
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Sunshine
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The literal part of your literary questions keeps me going...on to Part III... |
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Sudhir Iyer Member Ascendant
since 2000-04-26
Posts 6943Mumbai, India : now in Belgium |
bring it on... the part 3 beckons and I obediently follow... a most remarkably wonderful writing... regards, sudhir [This message has been edited by Sudhir Iyer (edited 12-06-2001).] |
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