tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post3700315554098996317..comments2023-09-26T08:04:43.755-07:00Comments on Mark Doty: Luxuriating in a break from AWPMark Dotyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04148162515300148887noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-66076163135499724122010-04-17T03:49:33.998-07:002010-04-17T03:49:33.998-07:00I love the comment about all the basically insular...I love the comment about all the basically insular folks (not a direct quote) gathering in this amorphous, borderless group....trying to be seen or not seen. But then I am phobic about crowds, strangers and non-strangers, so the fact that you didn't go is right up my alley.<br />thank you.melissashookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02398008713376655570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-1037637915111679862010-04-16T23:44:01.090-07:002010-04-16T23:44:01.090-07:00"Truly my system just rebelled at the thought..."Truly my system just rebelled at the thought of doing it again so soon after last year; Chicago felt like a kind of psychological boot camp, as if we were all slogging together through some difficult period of being in a community so large, vibrating and edgeless that it seemed to swallow all individual life."<br /><br />My feelings exactly. Thanks for this...Marihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05211528951336098923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-85762327180721897922010-04-16T19:56:53.646-07:002010-04-16T19:56:53.646-07:00Still, you were there in the best sense--quoted by...Still, you were there in the best sense--quoted by luminaries on several panels. And wonderful to see Paul, who acquitted himself fabulously!Gail Storeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00604622075021608040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-41991426430879153122010-04-13T08:24:34.094-07:002010-04-13T08:24:34.094-07:00Memory Lane- now there's a pen name- but then...Memory Lane- now there's a pen name- but then again that's the tension one needs when one's a writer, no?Lorenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18032101876911392137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-27815644322882001632010-04-12T06:59:44.291-07:002010-04-12T06:59:44.291-07:00At the final reading, Bob Hass mentioned something...At the final reading, Bob Hass mentioned something about how the conference is fundamentally opposed to who we are as people and writers...<br /><br />...and also how strange it is to look across a lobby to see some of these folks, whom you only really know by their work, struggling to the bar to grab a margarita.Thom Dawkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13177845696888545517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-56421796445862337942010-04-10T06:49:10.388-07:002010-04-10T06:49:10.388-07:00Yes.Yes.jessica handlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18295903432546706050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-19075271227573018852010-04-09T23:39:30.101-07:002010-04-09T23:39:30.101-07:00Hi Mark. We've never met. But I love your wo...Hi Mark. We've never met. But I love your words. I am a poet at http://loquaciouslyyours.com and I too have avoided AWP this year. Too much gushing and rushing around and I am but an hour from Denver. All best to you-- Jenne'Jenne' R. Andrews https://www.blogger.com/profile/15744946229300234443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-76095486676692677302010-04-09T11:11:22.207-07:002010-04-09T11:11:22.207-07:00I love that poem, Mim, and it's interesting ho...I love that poem, Mim, and it's interesting how firmly set in opposition to current notions of identity it seems! And though I see what Dickinson means about that frog boomingly publishing itself all across the bog, I also think of the one who has recently taken up residence in our pond: nothing exhibitionistic about him or her. Rather shy and retiring, instead.Mark Dotyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04148162515300148887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-77800791284687712662010-04-09T06:36:39.827-07:002010-04-09T06:36:39.827-07:00"How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like ..."How dreary to be somebody!<br />How public, like a frog . . . "<br /><br />Dreary, too, to try to be somebody.<br /><br />I've sworn off the AWP convention.Mimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13039776441665375475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2755123332716147532.post-49093758207243484332010-04-08T21:01:59.063-07:002010-04-08T21:01:59.063-07:00I'm not there either. I like your explanation...I'm not there either. I like your explanation of the "existential peculiarity" of it.Kathleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06559881249054540947noreply@blogger.com