Comments on: https://webbish6.com/2331/ Jeannine Hall Gailey's Poetry Blog Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:41:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: David Vincenti https://webbish6.com/2331/#comment-178 Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:41:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/2331/#comment-178 So how’d the talk go?

]]> By: jeannine https://webbish6.com/2331/#comment-177 Tue, 11 Oct 2005 23:46:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/2331/#comment-177 Thanks Peter – I do like that poem – so creepy!

]]> By: jeannine https://webbish6.com/2331/#comment-176 Tue, 11 Oct 2005 23:40:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/2331/#comment-176 David – thanks for flattery 🙂 and for the good suggestions – I think I may use the Clifton!
Tom – I’ll say hi to Paul if I see him! And thanks for “The Sheep Child,” – disturbing – I like it!

]]> By: Peter https://webbish6.com/2331/#comment-175 Tue, 11 Oct 2005 23:29:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/2331/#comment-175 Any by Ai: esp. “The Good Shepherd, Atlanta, 1981”

]]> By: Tom C. Hunley https://webbish6.com/2331/#comment-174 Tue, 11 Oct 2005 17:10:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/2331/#comment-174 The middle section of “The Sheep Child” by James Dickey

Give my best to Paul Nelson at SPLAB.

]]> By: David Vincenti https://webbish6.com/2331/#comment-173 Tue, 11 Oct 2005 16:25:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/2331/#comment-173 Well, no one’s got better judgment for these than you, oh expert practitioner, but since you asked.

I like to start at the beginning, and Browning’s “My Last Duchess” first attracted me to persona poems. Duchess is too often overlooked outside 10th grade for ye olde verbiage.

In a more modern bent, Lucille Clifton’s “Adam Thinking” and “Eve Thiking” are good, bite-sized, and go over well.

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