Kathyrn Hume on Late Coover

[Paul Mackin]

On 9/11/2012 2:27 AM, jochen stremmel wrote:
> Great, Michael!
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> You demonstrated what the plist is for, in my humble opinion.
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> More such larks, please.

Any discussion here  of TP's actual writing makes me shudder with pleasure.

I don't care a fig what he THINKS, or BELIEVES, or what books he likes.

P
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> 2012/9/11 Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>:
>>> how we do go on!  "such larks"
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>> 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
>>
>> and he pulls in even the marseillaise,  like the original California
>> landscape so heedlessly sodded over, in this celebration of dominion over
>> nature
>>
>> 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