cummings, when H.L. 3 Oct. 2006. April 8, 2020 • On this special edition of This Is Just To Say, The Closet Recordings, poet and novelist Carrie Fountain read "Courage" by Marie Howe, and adds a lesson to all you young poets out there for how to write an ode. One of my favourite spoofs of this poem is Kenneth Koch's: Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams — Kenneth Koch. Wind can be described in several ways; it can be breezy, blustery, or strong, but wind will never be “juicy.” However, a familiar pair of plums could be described as juicy, meaning Koch’s choice of using the adjective juicy was deliberate, parodying “This is Just to Say.”, In addition, when the speaker of “This is Just to Say” apologizes for taking the plums, he says, “Forgive me / they were delicious” (Williams). and the firm March wind on the porch was so juicy and cold. 3 Oct. 2006. He continued writing poetry and releasing books of poetry up until his death. Can’t these poets find their own poems? Keyword: Kenneth Koch. Forgive me. The New Leader May–June 2000: 39-41. If you google "this is just to say spoof", you will find that the above William Carlos Williams poem is often spoofed. March 23, 2020 • In this second of our Closet Recordings during the quarantine, poet and novelist Carrie Fountain reads "When I am Among The Trees," by Mary Oliver. . April 11, 2020 • In this edition of This Is Just To Say, The Closet Recordings, poet and novelist Carrie Fountain reads, "The Unwritten," by. And Kenneth Koch wrote his “Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams” in the 1960s, a series that culminates in this: “Last evening we went dancing and I broke your leg. Academic Search Premier. He once remarked that "Maybe you can almost characterize the poetry of the New York School as having as one of its main subjects the fullness and richness of life and the richness of possibility and excitement and happiness." Their daughter, Katherine, was born in Rome in 1955 (In 1982, Katherine married poet Mark Statman, one of Koch's former students). ", March 11, 2020 • Poet and novelist Carrie Fountain talks with poet Traci Brimhall about how hard it is to write a love poem, let alone a funny one. May 21, 2019 • On this edition of This is Just to Say the poet Chen Chen reads his poem "Poem" from his new book When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities and talks with poet and novelist Carrie Fountain about craft, humor, and how he came to poetry. When asked, Williams replied, “No one believes that poetry can exist in his own life. After graduating from Harvard in 1948 and moving to New York City, Koch studied for and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. A decade had passed since his last collection, but he was working on a new one. and its wooden beams were so inviting. Koch wrote hundreds of avant-garde plays over the course of his 50-year career, highlighted by drama collections like 1000 Avant-Garde Plays (1988), which only contains 116 plays, many of them only one scene or a few minutes in length. He got them to observe their environment but also to enjoy flights of fancy. I was clumsy andI wanted you here in the wards, where I am the doctor! Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. .”, “Love, Floss. Even New York school poets like Kenneth Koch and Frank O'Hara, who put a premium on wit and humor not that far divorced from someone like Ogden Nash, do so in a … This was a loose group of poets including Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery that eschewed contemporary introspective poetry in favor of an exuberant, cosmopolitan style that drew major inspiration from travel, painting, and music. 21 Sept. 2006, Koch, Kenneth. We hope you enjoy it! ( Log Out /  ( Log Out /  See Oliva Gatwood read in Austin September 15th at the North Door. August 12, 2019 • Listen back to a live taping of This is Just to Say with KUT's Rebecca McInroy and Carrie Fountain as they welcome actor Richard Robichaux, scholar Dr. Carra Martinez, playwright Kirk Lynn, and poet August Huerta for a reading and tribute to the late poet Tony Hoagland. Just one e-mail update per week — promise. before firing one blank round. for breakfast . Furthermore, not only does Koch’s exaggerated comparison in these two stanzas imitate Williams’ use of the word saving, but also Koch uses the same excuse given in “This is Just to Say” when the plum thief justifies his actions by saying the plums were “so sweet / and so cold” (Williams). On the stove is the tea-pot with enough tea leaves for you to make tea if you prefer--Just light the gas-- boil the water. and so cold -- William Carlos Williams. Check out my Funky Town playlist on Spotify here. Texas a&M University, College Station, Tx. One sixth-grader wrote: but it looked like the world falling apart. I wanted you here in the wards, where I am the doctor! Merrin, Jeredith. After the speaker of “Variations on a Theme” sprays hollyhocks with lye, he says, “Forgive me. . I found the spoof idea compelling, and so I decided to try my hand at a few: I did not sweep the front entrance this afternoon,despite the distasteful amount of cat litter.Forgive me. Among his 10 suggestions are "1) Is it astonishing?" View all posts by Kressie Kornis. April 21, 2020 • For this edition of This is Just To Say, The Closet Recordings, poet and novelist Carrie Fountain reads, "Wedding Cake" by Naomi Shihab Nye. March 31, 2020 • In this, the eighth, edition of This is Just To Say, The Closet Recordings, poet and novelist Carrie Fountain reads, "The Mercy" by Philip Levine. -- Kenneth Koch This Is Just to Say For William Carlos Williams I have just asked you to get out of my apartment even though you never thought I would Forgive me you were driving me insane.-- Erica Lynn Hurley (Gambino) Though not against T. S. Eliot, Koch opposed the idea that in order to write poetry one had to be depressed or think that the world is a terrible place. Koch died from a year-long battle with leukemia in 2002. The speaker admits he knew his friend was saving the house, but nonetheless he still chops it down since he had nothing better to do, similar to how the speaker of “This is Just to Say” knew the plums were being saved for breakfast but eats them anyways because “they were delicious” (Williams).

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