A PASSING MOMENT
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This is my rather loose translation of a hokku by Ōemaru, who lived into
the first five years of the 19th century. For a moment,Autumn seen on the
hillsAt ...
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Thursday, June 30, 2005
Tsk Tsk Tsk
Using a ten year old's poetry to wage their battle upon the other side. Really, isn't the observation to be made here is that this poet may be a bit more mature (or, at least, thankfully innocent) than the other two. And what's really lost from childhood is our willingness to just let people (or poets) be. In the full definition of that simple but wonderful two-letter word. Grow up (or down, whichever).
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Well said.
I happen to agree. I don't see Julia's poetry as a tool in the war against quietude. Ron might have said that her poetry is better than that of many poets period, without mentioning any particular school. I know it's better than mine, for example. Or simply that it is good as what it is, with no invidious comparisons one way or the other. Of course, I should point out she wrote all of it BEFORE she turned 10, and that she has no idea who Robert Pinsky is.
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