Comments on: Shorty Get Loose http://rosswhite.com/2008/04/28/shorty-get-loose/ You may be looking for another Ross White, but this is the one you've found. Sun, 06 May 2012 01:17:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jessie Carty http://rosswhite.com/2008/04/28/shorty-get-loose/comment-page-1/#comment-232 Jessie Carty Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:42:28 +0000 http://rosswhite.com/2008/04/28/shorty-get-loose/#comment-232 As I have been reading through my poems to prepare my thesis/manuscript, I am encountering what you are saying and not just with the short poems. Thanks for phrasing it for me :). I think what happens often with poems of any length is that the initial image, line or thought that started the poem sometimes gets lost as we try to shape the piece. Sometimes we forget to actually listen to the poem and only listen to ourselves. I sound yoda very like today. Sorry I didn't get to see ya at the Small Press Fest. Hope to make a run by Warren Wilson during the January residency. Queens residency is last week in May. As I have been reading through my poems to prepare my thesis/manuscript, I am encountering what you are saying and not just with the short poems. Thanks for phrasing it for me :) .

I think what happens often with poems of any length is that the initial image, line or thought that started the poem sometimes gets lost as we try to shape the piece. Sometimes we forget to actually listen to the poem and only listen to ourselves.

I sound yoda very like today.

Sorry I didn’t get to see ya at the Small Press Fest. Hope to make a run by Warren Wilson during the January residency. Queens residency is last week in May.

]]> By: Ross http://rosswhite.com/2008/04/28/shorty-get-loose/comment-page-1/#comment-230 Ross Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:02:44 +0000 http://rosswhite.com/2008/04/28/shorty-get-loose/#comment-230 Hm. This is an interesting argument, but I'm not sure that I would call the Jarrell a complete narrative, though the lyric does contain narrative information. I recognize that this is a slippery slope, though... so if I ever do anything with the thoughts above, I'll have to edit that. :) Personally, I find the power of "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" not in the story that it tells, but in the co-location of such strong images over rapid movement in time. Time markers, however, don't always tell a story: here, Jarrell presents so much information concurrently that the story can hardly be said to have a beginning, middle and end... it hardly has a beginning before it has its end. Hm. This is an interesting argument, but I’m not sure that I would call the Jarrell a complete narrative, though the lyric does contain narrative information. I recognize that this is a slippery slope, though… so if I ever do anything with the thoughts above, I’ll have to edit that. :)

Personally, I find the power of “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” not in the story that it tells, but in the co-location of such strong images over rapid movement in time. Time markers, however, don’t always tell a story: here, Jarrell presents so much information concurrently that the story can hardly be said to have a beginning, middle and end… it hardly has a beginning before it has its end.

]]> By: Travis http://rosswhite.com/2008/04/28/shorty-get-loose/comment-page-1/#comment-228 Travis Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:56:59 +0000 http://rosswhite.com/2008/04/28/shorty-get-loose/#comment-228 The only counter-example to your parenthetical I can think of is "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" ... And "The Death of Randall Jarrell," although I haven't read it yet. The only counter-example to your parenthetical I can think of is “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” …

And “The Death of Randall Jarrell,” although I haven’t read it yet.

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