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03-27-2010, 05:34 PM
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Seriously Funny
Seriously Funny: Poems about Love, Death, Religion, Art, Politics, Sex, and Everything Else, edited by Barbara Hamby and David Kirby, has just appeared from the University of Georgia Press. I have two poems in it and am trying to figure out what's funny about Louise Gluck.
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03-27-2010, 06:48 PM
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Nice going, Sam. Maybe she's the "serious" half of the title?
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03-27-2010, 07:09 PM
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Congrats!
Gluck rhymes with duck, and ducks are funny.
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03-27-2010, 08:59 PM
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Actually, Glück rhymes with dick, but that's funny too.
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03-27-2010, 11:23 PM
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and with ick.
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03-27-2010, 11:53 PM
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Two more feathers in your much-feathered cap. Thanks for letting us know about it.
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03-28-2010, 02:02 AM
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Seriously good news, Sam. Great to hear.
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03-28-2010, 11:12 AM
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Louise Glück's
Poetry sücks.
--Richard Moore
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03-28-2010, 11:15 AM
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And let's all say a prayer for the repose of Richard Moore's soul on Palm Sunday. Congratulations, Sam.
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03-28-2010, 01:05 PM
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I like Glück's poetry, and I do find it funny on occasion. I find a deadpan kind of humor in these lines, for instance, which end one of her books:
I thought my life was over.
Then I moved to Cambridge.
I also discovered when I did a reading of her dialogue poems from Meadowlands with a man reading the husband's lines and a woman reading the wife's, some of the poems got laughs. She has a good ear for some of the frustrating ways couples talk to one another. I am not saying humor is her dominant mode, and her particular kind of humor won't work for most people.
Susan
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