This is striking and beautiful, but it also reminded me of a very different interpretation of William Carlos Williams's poem: in a seminar I took with him long ago, James Longenbach pointed out that WCW was very into modern painting, and it had crossed his mind to interpret the poem not as a realistic description of a real scene but as a modernist abstract painting with a blob of red and a couple blobs of white, with a bit of silver on the red as the "glaze." (Hat tip to SR!)
Showing posts with label James Longenbach. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James Longenbach. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Red Wheelbarrow video
This is striking and beautiful, but it also reminded me of a very different interpretation of William Carlos Williams's poem: in a seminar I took with him long ago, James Longenbach pointed out that WCW was very into modern painting, and it had crossed his mind to interpret the poem not as a realistic description of a real scene but as a modernist abstract painting with a blob of red and a couple blobs of white, with a bit of silver on the red as the "glaze." (Hat tip to SR!)
Sunday, May 06, 2007
DPP6
THE DAILY POEM PROJECT, WEEK SIX
Here are the poems to vote for in week six of my Daily Poem Project (the poems on Poetry Daily from Monday, April 30, to Sunday, May 6):
36. Susan Stewart, "The Lost Colony"
37. Kevin McFadden, "The Ides of Amer-I-Can"
38. Robin Ekiss, "Vanitas Mundi"
39. John Skoyles, "The Wish Mind"
40. Dan Gerber, "Bodhisattva"
41. Gabriel Fried, "Traveling Fair"
42. James Longenbach, "A Different Route"
The Rules:
You can send your vote to me by email or as a comment on the blog. If you want to vote by commenting but do not want your vote to appear on the blog, you just have to say so in your comment (I moderate all comments). In any case, I will not post the comments until after the final vote is in (secret ballot). Please vote by the number of the poem in the list above! Please make a final decision and vote for only one poem! Please VOTE BY THURSDAY, MAY 10!
Abstaining: If you read the poems but decide that there is no poem that you want to vote for, I'd like to know that you have decided to abstain.
Results of previous weeks:
Week One
Week Two
Week Three
Week Four
Week Five
Here are the poems to vote for in week six of my Daily Poem Project (the poems on Poetry Daily from Monday, April 30, to Sunday, May 6):
36. Susan Stewart, "The Lost Colony"
37. Kevin McFadden, "The Ides of Amer-I-Can"
38. Robin Ekiss, "Vanitas Mundi"
39. John Skoyles, "The Wish Mind"
40. Dan Gerber, "Bodhisattva"
41. Gabriel Fried, "Traveling Fair"
42. James Longenbach, "A Different Route"
The Rules:
You can send your vote to me by email or as a comment on the blog. If you want to vote by commenting but do not want your vote to appear on the blog, you just have to say so in your comment (I moderate all comments). In any case, I will not post the comments until after the final vote is in (secret ballot). Please vote by the number of the poem in the list above! Please make a final decision and vote for only one poem! Please VOTE BY THURSDAY, MAY 10!
Abstaining: If you read the poems but decide that there is no poem that you want to vote for, I'd like to know that you have decided to abstain.
Results of previous weeks:
Week One
Week Two
Week Three
Week Four
Week Five
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