tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5954130354262793169.post7617891133177500722..comments2024-03-11T20:39:46.221+02:00Comments on vazambam: Right As Rain till Kingdom Come and Still No Sign of Wear and Tearvazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)http://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5954130354262793169.post-25734507785160215462011-12-07T08:49:47.560+02:002011-12-07T08:49:47.560+02:00Well, that makes four of us (I'm counting NoMa...Well, that makes four of us (I'm counting NoMan as a member of the crew)on our merry way right about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Between_Scylla_and_Charybdis" rel="nofollow">here.</a>vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5954130354262793169.post-69771020145706956622011-12-06T17:14:10.780+02:002011-12-06T17:14:10.780+02:00Hey, Joe (as the folk ballad used say), it turns o...Hey, Joe (as the folk ballad used say), it turns out the 3 million stooges you're talking about are the same 3 million stooges I was talking about!<br /><br />(It's a small world in the chilly wee hours of the morning...) <br /><br />I'll just move over and offer you this hard place next to mine, here on the rock.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5954130354262793169.post-13223870771757208302011-12-06T16:56:30.614+02:002011-12-06T16:56:30.614+02:00This puts me in mind of the hilarious essay by Fra...This puts me in mind of the hilarious essay by Frank Sullivan (oh dear, from 1936!), called "<a href="http://web.fccj.org/~hdenson/den101-pt4.html" rel="nofollow">The Cliché Expert Reveals Himself in His True Colors</a>." Some of the clichés he bandies about were old-fashioned by the time I read it in the anthology <i>A Liberal Education</i> in 1967 or so, but it's still amusing. Between Tom's neoacademic poets, who lack metaphors, and the many "avant-garde" poets who seem to think poems are a form of standup comedy on the very subject of metaphor (with endless snarled skeins of erudite and literary pop culture allusions thrown in)—well, we're between a rock and a hard place, aren't we....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5954130354262793169.post-37654944597748428742011-12-06T16:09:41.571+02:002011-12-06T16:09:41.571+02:00The worst news about metaphors (I found this out o...The worst news about metaphors (I found this out only a few short years ago, playing catch-up as usual) is that all the most celebrated neoacademic poets of our historical moment... don't think much of them.<br /><br />On the other hand... maybe that's the best news about metaphors!<br /><br />(Anyway how would they know -- they don't have any!)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com