tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13593902.post6304886759041788768..comments2024-02-11T09:55:50.468-08:00Comments on The Eastside View: The Function of PoetryCharles Sherehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10480432901356490235noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13593902.post-90713838986392033612011-07-29T23:50:19.544-07:002011-07-29T23:50:19.544-07:00Yes. Well, thanks. The poem is on the death of the...<i>Yes. Well, thanks. The poem is on the death of the poet Wilmer Mills, whose wife was our younger daughter's best friend in grammar school. I didn't know him, and know little about him, but am haunted by him, and his life, and work, utterly different from my own. The poem woke me up at twenty to six in the morning yesterday: an unusual occurrence, thank the muses.</i>Charles Sherehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10480432901356490235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13593902.post-81932791753982714992011-07-29T12:10:34.524-07:002011-07-29T12:10:34.524-07:00Well, a poem.
And not bad, either.
The extraordi...Well, a poem.<br /><br />And not bad, either.<br /><br />The extraordinary narrative you've been working on these last few years, is for . . . your descendants? Or . . .<br /><br />I often think we need more local stories. For instance, I wish we had a "folk" record of this neighborhood--how it came into being, who the first "settlers" were, etc. How the roads were planned, etc. It's all part of an oral history which keeps dissolving behind us. Americans just keep moving on. There's the "back-splash" of Left Coasters who've gone back to points east. This must be consolidation. <br /><br />What will America look like, when our civilization is as old as Italy's now is? Certainly our "ruins" will look less picturesque--? Who knows?Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.com