Kathyrn Hume on Late Coover

[Prashant Kumar]

wallace-l, anyone? That place scares me sometimes.

On 12 September 2012 00:38, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:

> On 9/11/2012 2:27 AM, jochen stremmel wrote:
>
>> Great, Michael!
>>
>> You demonstrated what the plist is for, in my humble opinion.
>>
>> 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
>
>>
>>
>> 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...
>>>
>>> plink
>>> Brecht
>>>
>>> plonk
>>> the Marseillaise
>>>
>>> plunk
>>> the Marquis de Sod
>>>
>>> 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!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> “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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