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havin' quite a time
Just got my cloak back. Loaned it to the girl last night. She was so excited it was scary. She said she was living a dream. I wonder how many other apparently normal-looking people have these strange desires (which I live out every day).
However, before that was a talk/question session thing for the writers' house, with August Kleinzahler and Thom Gunn, poets and extremely awesome people. It was probably the most fun I've had at a reading all semester, and I'm sorry I missed the one they did Wednesday. Kleinzahler read, to an audience consisting entirely of college creative-writing students and teachers, an essay which basically made these points:
1. College creative-writing classes are worse than useless;
2. College creative-writing teachers are just failed poets;
3. College creative-writing students are posers who would be better off in accounting.
Finally, someone with which I agree! Must say it was brave of him, though. Laura appeared rather mad.
Also they imparted a bit of historical wisdom, apparently courtesy of former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky:
Q. What do the Biblical King David and Jeffrey Dahmer have in common?
A. They'd both kill for fuck.
Poets are nifty people. : )
At the end of his reading Kleinzahler made the comment, "I wrote this essay 13 years ago when the country was at the brink of war. I'm reading it now when this country is on the brink of fascism." I think that comment was to blame for my having yet another dream in which I'm frantically preparing to join the Resistance before Bush's secret police come for me. These dreams make me feel a bit guilty about making no real-life preparations. But I'm still having trouble taking him seriously. I mean, it's *Dubya*.
However, before that was a talk/question session thing for the writers' house, with August Kleinzahler and Thom Gunn, poets and extremely awesome people. It was probably the most fun I've had at a reading all semester, and I'm sorry I missed the one they did Wednesday. Kleinzahler read, to an audience consisting entirely of college creative-writing students and teachers, an essay which basically made these points:
1. College creative-writing classes are worse than useless;
2. College creative-writing teachers are just failed poets;
3. College creative-writing students are posers who would be better off in accounting.
Finally, someone with which I agree! Must say it was brave of him, though. Laura appeared rather mad.
Also they imparted a bit of historical wisdom, apparently courtesy of former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky:
Q. What do the Biblical King David and Jeffrey Dahmer have in common?
A. They'd both kill for fuck.
Poets are nifty people. : )
At the end of his reading Kleinzahler made the comment, "I wrote this essay 13 years ago when the country was at the brink of war. I'm reading it now when this country is on the brink of fascism." I think that comment was to blame for my having yet another dream in which I'm frantically preparing to join the Resistance before Bush's secret police come for me. These dreams make me feel a bit guilty about making no real-life preparations. But I'm still having trouble taking him seriously. I mean, it's *Dubya*.