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Brian Spears: February 2008
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Remember- if you googled a poem, so can your teacher. Friday, February 29, 2008. What happens with a writing exercise gone wrong. This is the nugget, the meaning you must. Glean from this poem. You should interpret. It only this way, for there is just. One way, that I, your poet really meant. For you to read it.) I hate kielbasa,. The greasy juiciness of it; I hate. The feel of teeth that pop the sausage. Casing to squeeze out the ground pig meat,. The leftover chunks that even butchers. Anyone who lives...
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Brian Spears: April 2008
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Remember- if you googled a poem, so can your teacher. Monday, April 28, 2008. So I'm paging through my contributor's. And I come across this poem titled "Arrival" by Mike Carson. Now, I know nothing about Carson- never even heard of him before this poem, though he's been published in some fine journals- but I can tell you who he's been influenced by, just by reading these lines. The riot of frog song, quivering the pond. With squiggle and hop of their screamed mating,. Necks, skin-shiver, as the green sog.
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Brian Spears: March 2008
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Remember- if you googled a poem, so can your teacher. Thursday, March 27, 2008. Seamus Heaney's "The Forge". And yet, this is all pretty subtle in the poem. It's not overtly religious; it allows the reader to stick to a literal interpretation about a man whose job is disappearing as the world changes around him, while also allowing a reader who wants to grasp those deeper images another path into the poem. Posted by Brian @ 12:04 AM. Links to this post. Monday, March 24, 2008. Then there's this one.
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Brian Spears: June 2008
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Remember- if you googled a poem, so can your teacher. Wednesday, June 25, 2008. On "The Politics of Poetry". In the July/August edition of Poetry. There's an essay by David Orr titled "The Politics of Poetry" that I want to comment on a little. The subject as a whole has been on my mind a lot lately- I wrote about it some on my other blog in response to Stanley Fish's. Comments on his NY Times blog about politics in the classroom, and I think there are a few crossovers to this essay. The modern lyric may...
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Brian Spears: May 2008
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Remember- if you googled a poem, so can your teacher. Tuesday, May 27, 2008. It's not less travelled. The problem is that too many readers hit those last three lines like an awkward kid on roller skates hits the wall, and they never look beyond them. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-. I took the one less travelled by,. And that has made all the difference. What a ponderous close, if that's all you take away from the poem. But it's what comes before that gives that close a cruel twist. I've been away f...
