On Friday, March 26, 2021 at 11:18:24 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:elaborately detailed embellishment known as gingerbread trim." (ibid.) Sandburg's house is much too large and stately to be considered a cottage, and neither the Colonial or Georgian Revival style has anything to do with "gingerbread." The content of
On Thursday, March 25, 2021 at 10:38:04 PM UTC-4, Zod wrote:
W.Dockery wrote:
Today's poem on the Shadowville Mythos poetry blog:
Poet Muses (Part 1)
I.
Carl Sandburg was the quiet one
in the ginger-bread cottage
a few blocks from Lake Michigan
sitting with the avant-garde
of modern 1918 Chicago.
Yet it is his voice
ringing out loud and clear
from that group [...]
Read more at:
Shadowville Mythos: Poet Muses (Part 1) https://shadowville-mythos.blogspot.com/2021/03/poet-muses-part-1.html?spref=tw
Outstanding selection from the Sundayu Sampler archives Doc...Dan Barfield just sent me a note, he really likes this one, high praise indeed:
"I have just sent you an email about this work. I think it is the best thing you have ever written."The "best thing you have ever written" only has meaning when compared to the rest of your work. If the body of your work is poorly written, a semi-competent piece might easily be your best.
This piece is less incompetent than some of your other poems.
I didn't bother to critique this when it appeared in "The Sunday Sampler," so here's a belated one for your benefit. It would not have made it into "A Year of Sundays."
Poet Muses (Part 1)
I.
Carl Sandburg was the quiet one
in the ginger-bread cottage
a few blocks from Lake Michigan
sitting with the avant-garde
of modern 1918 Chicago.
[The Sandburg house is neither gingerbread nor a cottage. It is "a multi-storied house designed by Lilian Sandburg with mixed Colonial Revival and Georgian Revival elements." (Wikipedia) "Gingerbread" is "an architectural style that consists of
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