Kathyrn Hume on Late Coover
jochen stremmel
jstremmel at gmail.com
Tue Sep 11 01:27:25 CDT 2012
Great, Michael!
You demonstrated what the plist is for, in my humble opinion.
More such larks, please.
2012/9/11 Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>:
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>> how we do go on! "such larks"
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> but i mean, the ripples from the skipping stone...
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> plink
> Brecht
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> plonk
> the Marseillaise
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> plunk
> the Marquis de Sod
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> these are brought in lightly, painlessly, humorously but the literal
> "grounding" of the social movement, like parents grounding a child, but also
> 'going to ground' like a fox on the run, which is sort of what zoyd is
> doing, which again is a further development of what the marquis did in
> leaving dramaturgy for lawn service - going to ground - looking for cover,
> for a liveable rhizome
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> a-and the imposition of the sadistic domination on the grass, in his ads (in
> full costume, whipping the grass, and the grass saying "we love eet") -
> parallels the apparent mass approbation depicted around the Reagan
> Administration, eg
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> and he pulls in even the marseillaise, like the original California
> landscape so heedlessly sodded over, in this celebration of dominion over
> nature
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> but that isn't even half of what's in the passage!
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> --
> “It is difficult/to get the news from poems/yet men die miserably every
> day/for lack/of what is found there” - William Carlos Williams
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