[stylist] {Disarmed} FW: Star in the Throat, Fire in the Cupboard by Catie Rosemurgy

Thu May 1 02:03:52 UTC 2014

You have a point and it is well taken ... until I forget again. LOL! But how frustrating must it be for a writer -- or painter, composer, lyricist, ... -- if they haven't found that right audience that their work speaks to? How do you find that right audience?
Barbara

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> On Apr 30, 2014, at 7:03 PM, "Bridgit Pollpeter" <bpollpeter at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> But there's also a target audience. Not everything written is for every
> audience. This doesn't necessarily render the work, or creator, wrong or
> allusive.
> 
> And you know how some music just moves you, sparks a mood even if you
> don't pay direct attention to lyrics or know what the creator was
> thinking during the composition  The written word can act in this way
> too, especially with poetry. Sometimes we search to much for meaning
> when what we need to do is sit back and tap into our emotions.
> 
> I think it was Chris who said that some poetry just ignites something in
> him even if he doesn't get it or misinterprets it. I like this.
> 
> Bridgit
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Barbara
> Hammel
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 2:53 PM
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> Subject: Re: [stylist] {Disarmed} FW: Star in the Throat,Fire in the
> Cupboard by Catie Rosemurgy
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> 
> I would agree with you.  If it has to be explained, then the work of art
> 
> misses the point.  I think that type of art is like the emperor's set of
> 
> clothes.  Everyone just says they like them to be polite, meanwhile they
> are 
> thinking "what in the world was that?"
> Barbara
> 
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> 
> 
> Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.--Robert
> Frost -----Original Message----- 
> From: Jacobson, Shawn D
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 1:56 PM
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> Subject: Re: [stylist] {Disarmed} FW: Star in the Throat, Fire in the 
> Cupboard by Catie Rosemurgy
> 
> You're right that the imagery is interesting but the meaning of the poem
> is 
> obscure.
> 
> My problem with poems that need to be explained is akin to my problem
> with 
> jokes where the punch line has to be explained, it isn't complete in
> itself.
> 
> Shawn
> 
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> Williams
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> Subject: [stylist] {Disarmed} FW: Star in the Throat, Fire in the
> Cupboard 
> by Catie Rosemurgy
> 
> Bridgit,
> Here is a sample of a poem I received today, that without the author's
> note, 
> I could get little meaning. I read for meaning, and you like the
> metaphors 
> and word choices. I like that also, once I have a clue about the
> content. 
> Curious about your reaction to this. There are many similar instances,
> as I 
> read each one each day and sweat over many. Often I will not read the 
> authors note until after the sweating. Sometimes I just give up, and
> then 
> read it.
> 
> Jackie Lee
> 
> Time is the school in which we learn.
> Time is the fire in which we burn.
> Delmore Schwartz
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> in the Throat, Fire in the Cupboard
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> Catie Rosemurgy
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> When I was young, I hid under the porch with a star in my throat. When I
> got a little older, my mother opened the cupboard to let the 
> fire out.
> 
> I should've known the cliffs meant a coming blankness.
> We should've noticed the competition growing deadly between the 
> masts and the trees.
> The problem wasn't the lateness of our parties but what we used for wood
> to 
> keep them lit.
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> What is it people say-take my arm and walk with me along the shore
> for 
> a minute?
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> My mother, bless her, is a speck of color in the flush of a great cheek.
> I've come to ask you to consider praying for that giant child.
> 
> Remember when we began to forget the babies once we tossed them in
> the 
> air?
> First it was the completion of those simple gestures, but then entire 
> sections of the story
> went missing. In our lips we could feel the slight buzz
> of the edge where the cut was made. We crawled in and out of those 
> holes
> wearing different faces.
> 
> I believe the stories got wet and began to bleed together.
> I believe we built the sides of the town too high and the events kept 
> rolling back.
> I didn't know that the water was going to keep rising as well, but if
> you 
> have any say in the matter, while the boats go down, I'd like to be on a
> 
> ladder, peeking into a loft made narcotic with children, a dead pool
> with 
> rolling, living waves. If possible,
> I'd like the water to douse the match that's growing out of the bones 
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> "'Star in the Throat, Fire in the Cupboard' is loosely based on events
> that 
> occurred throughout northern Wisconsin and upper Michigan during the
> 1800s 
> and early 1900s. The poem comes from a collection about a fictional town
> in 
> which several conflated and highly-altered historical disasters happen
> over 
> and over. The town keeps burning, flooding, dwindling, and finally 
> disappearing. This particular poem speculates on how an event (in this
> case 
> the Peshtigo, Wisconsin, firestorm of 1871-the worst recorded forest
> fire in 
> United States history) becomes distorted through repetition and
> retelling." -Catie Rosemurgy
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