Mood: Fuzzy-wuzzy
Location: Where the Heart Is
Ambient noise: Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Battle Dimension (Cartoon Network)
Weekends, morning comes early around here. The Adorables (esp. #2) are likely to rise at a time more appropriate to a weekday, regardless of whether Mom has been out past midnight talking with scintillating literary types. Today the call was 6:30. Fortunately, #1 agreed to watch #2 so I could sleep a little longer--I had about an hour until she burst through the French doors, jumped on the bed and proceeded to engage in a series of donkey kicks that would make a personal trainer proud. Now, #1 is doing fish-like flops, making it a little bouncy as I struggle to keep fingers to keyboard.
What a pleasure it was to come home last night and find George Green's Warhol series here. As is probably obvious, I'm very influenced by pop culture in my own work, and I love to read poems that mix "high" and "low." What I find interesting about George's poems is that, while ekphrasis is the initial situation, they go on to speculate about/comment on the lives beyond the images--or perhaps, more accurately, the images beyond the portraits.
I've been thinking a lot about Robert Lowell lately--Life Studies is a touchstone for me--and will have more to say about that in a bit.
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