Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: mpsilvertone@yahoo.com (HarryLime) Newsgroups: alt.arts.poetry.comments,rec.arts.poems Subject: Re: The poetry of Robert Creeley Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 22:59:24 +0000 Organization: novaBBS Message-ID: <70c197acfe6d2e1a8622d9b00c9bfe40@www.novabbs.com> References: <30b8b575b3e18ebca59094b7d06c5a52@www.novabbs.com> <120dbe56bde85dc89cbedcd43f24713a@www.novabbs.com> <0c052387f347e73ff36efc698daf7e1c@www.novabbs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="3650050"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="9yNNWN6S3jCL2bQghupeZ7yt9QQF3aIiWb2guQimaIw"; User-Agent: Rocksolid Light X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 X-Rslight-Posting-User: e04a750cbe04de725ce24a46bcc3953c76236e3b X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$G.mY6j/0ahz64J4PKeP4e.mLJc11JH5cGTbWp7kF8q5VZuU5mE.8y On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 22:40:59 +0000, W.Dockery wrote: > On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 21:56:45 +0000, HarryLime wrote: > >> On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 21:48:45 +0000, Will Dockery wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 7 Feb 2025 0:04:15 +0000, George J. Dance wrote: >>> >>>> https://www.novabbs.com/arts/article.php?id=255731&group=alt.arts.poetry.comments >>>> On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 16:15:27 +0000, Michael Monkey Peabrain (MPP) aka >>>> "HarryLime" wrote: >>>> >>>>> I realized from the content of NancyGene's posts that they were >>>>> intelligent, well-educated, and better written than anyone here. >>>>> Naturally, I asked them to start contributing to the "Sampler." And I >>>>> was right in doing so. >>>>> >>>>> Here are the opening lines of NancyGene's latest poem: >>>>> >>>>> "Yesterdays stack up like piles of read newspapers, >>>>> Cluttering my mind and obstructing my day." >>>>> >>>>> That's poetry of the highest quality. >>>> >>>> The opening line is very good. It's almost as good as the opening line >>>> of Robert Creeleys poem, "The Days Pile Up": >>>> >>>> "The days pile up like unread newspapers," >>>> >>>> I do hope "Dr." NastyGoon credited Mr. Creeley; otherwise that would be >>>> something they would call, you know -- "plagiarism". >>> >>> Robert Creeley was an interesting poet, a member of the Black Mountain >>> school of poets: >>> >>> https://www.poetryfoundation.org/collections/151709/an-introduction-to-the-black-mountain-school >> >> >> From the handful of poems I've sampled, he's mediocre even by free verse >> standards. But that's just my opinion. >> >> -- > > I was familiar with the poetry of Roblox Creeley years ago in my heavier > Beat poetry studies, and, agreed, he was never quite as gripping a poet > as Kerouac, Ginsberg or Cordo. > > I'm reading him now and finding some pretty good poetry. Is Roblox any relation to Robert? Seriously, Donkey -- you've really to to stop using autocorrect. --