Comments on: https://webbish6.com/2346/ Jeannine Hall Gailey's Poetry Blog Thu, 04 Aug 2005 16:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: jeannine https://webbish6.com/2346/#comment-256 Thu, 04 Aug 2005 16:53:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/2346/#comment-256 Thanks Wendy! And Peter-thanks too! Yes, I saw that Charles was also a finalist – don’t those nice readers at Kent State have good taste 🙂 I think, with Charles’ common love of Buffy and Rufus Wainwright, that he may be my long-lost twin.

]]> By: Peter https://webbish6.com/2346/#comment-255 Thu, 04 Aug 2005 05:08:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/2346/#comment-255 HI Jeannine: cangrats on the Wick nod. Did you hear Charles Jensen was a finalist too? Yay for both of you.

Re: Humor & Darkness. I’m all for it. They are each other’s long lost twin. They are meant for each other.

]]> By: Wendy Wisner https://webbish6.com/2346/#comment-254 Wed, 03 Aug 2005 14:48:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/2346/#comment-254 Good news! Yay for you!

]]> By: jeannine https://webbish6.com/2346/#comment-253 Tue, 02 Aug 2005 18:10:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/2346/#comment-253 Dear David, good points. Yes, there’s nothing that keeps humor from having dark elements, but I think both BNL and Tate back away from their own admissions of sadness or darkness at just the point where you want them to be “real.” I just love the whole song “Pinch Me,” which I think is one of the best examples of that absurd/dark edge that BNL has. I wish I could steal their line, “You try to scream but it only comes out as a yawn.” Very existential x-er, don’t you think? I remember when I got a bootleg copy of one of their concerts back in 91 or 92 from some very enthusiastic Canadian boys. I thought they were genius. Little did I know they’d be mainstream pop in a couple of years.
I think I’m going to use “Book Club,” which is one of my favorite Tate poems, although “How the Pope is Chosen” is very entertaining. It’s hard to pick just one poem to exemplify an idea like “Farce.” Right now I’m struggling with picking poems for “Dark Humor” and “Word Play.”

]]> By: David Vincenti https://webbish6.com/2346/#comment-252 Tue, 02 Aug 2005 15:40:00 +0000 http://webbish6.com/2346/#comment-252 Hmm.

Hmmmmmmm.

You make an interesting correlation. I’m much more a fan of BNL than Tate, though I have to say hearing Tate live contributed quite a bit to the length of leash humor gets in my work today.

I don’t think humor and darkness are incompatible – most humor has a dark core, after all. Darkness of desparate situations, injustices; BNL and JT use both these and others, I think. Maybe the farce exaggerates these to the point where we can wrap our brains around the issues.

Or maybe I’m full of crap.

Are you using “How The Pope is Chosen”, by any chance?

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