Comments on: Stern’s “Hanging Scroll” http://www.lorenwebster.net/In_a_Dark_Time/2006/12/26/sterns-hanging-scroll/ Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:14:02 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Dave http://www.lorenwebster.net/In_a_Dark_Time/2006/12/26/sterns-hanging-scroll/comment-page-1/#comment-7027 Dave Sun, 31 Dec 2006 13:23:14 +0000 http://www.lorenwebster.net/In_a_Dark_Time/2006/12/26/sterns-hanging-scroll/#comment-7027 <blockquote>...too 'literary' for my taste, with references to classical composers, writers, and, mainly, famous poets.</blockquote> Neruda had a great phrase for poets like this (in an interview w/Bly): their work has "the scent of the drawing-room." Stern is O.K., but I personally don't find that his poems repay the effort to understand them. He needs to be either a little less drawing-roomish or a little more profound, IMO. (Instantaneous comment previewing -- wow!)

…too ‘literary’ for my taste, with references to classical composers, writers, and, mainly, famous poets.

Neruda had a great phrase for poets like this (in an interview w/Bly): their work has “the scent of the drawing-room.”

Stern is O.K., but I personally don’t find that his poems repay the effort to understand them. He needs to be either a little less drawing-roomish or a little more profound, IMO.

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]]> By: rb http://www.lorenwebster.net/In_a_Dark_Time/2006/12/26/sterns-hanging-scroll/comment-page-1/#comment-7017 rb Fri, 29 Dec 2006 06:44:59 +0000 http://www.lorenwebster.net/In_a_Dark_Time/2006/12/26/sterns-hanging-scroll/#comment-7017 lovely stern has a way of going deep in a seemingly effortless way 'everything hangs in the balance' happy holidays loren! lovely

stern has a way of going deep in a seemingly effortless way

‘everything hangs in the balance’

happy holidays loren!

]]> By: arevik http://www.lorenwebster.net/In_a_Dark_Time/2006/12/26/sterns-hanging-scroll/comment-page-1/#comment-7013 arevik Thu, 28 Dec 2006 22:44:11 +0000 http://www.lorenwebster.net/In_a_Dark_Time/2006/12/26/sterns-hanging-scroll/#comment-7013 Happy New Year, Loren, and thank you for this very inspiring place! Happy New Year, Loren, and thank you for this very inspiring place!

]]> By: Amanda M http://www.lorenwebster.net/In_a_Dark_Time/2006/12/26/sterns-hanging-scroll/comment-page-1/#comment-7009 Amanda M Wed, 27 Dec 2006 20:02:36 +0000 http://www.lorenwebster.net/In_a_Dark_Time/2006/12/26/sterns-hanging-scroll/#comment-7009 My father went to China in 1980 and brought back, among other things, embroidered scrolls for me and my sisters. I have looked at mine often since 1980 because it has always been hanging somewhere that I can see daily. My scroll is very simple, with a golden bird flying purposefully through white space toward the ground, from a black branch with white and blue flowers on it. There is something written in Chinese characters, and a measurement of 27 x 40 is noted, which I assume to be the size of the original scroll, and the numbers 1027-311. The bird is an intent and focused spirit, maybe a mother, maybe a father. Thanks for posting that poem. My father went to China in 1980 and brought back, among other things, embroidered scrolls for me and my sisters. I have looked at mine often since 1980 because it has always been hanging somewhere that I can see daily. My scroll is very simple, with a golden bird flying purposefully through white space toward the ground, from a black branch with white and blue flowers on it. There is something written in Chinese characters, and a measurement of 27 x 40 is noted, which I assume to be the size of the original scroll, and the numbers 1027-311. The bird is an intent and focused spirit, maybe a mother, maybe a father. Thanks for posting that poem.

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