tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-607719101484462692.post4469518456503426800..comments2024-01-23T12:27:05.258+00:00Comments on The Stone and the Star: New Poem Published: 'Qualicum Beach'Clarissa Aykroydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08571136118573329263noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-607719101484462692.post-30095074880915101742015-06-07T15:56:49.778+01:002015-06-07T15:56:49.778+01:00Thanks Gabrielle! I had hoped it would be sort of ...Thanks Gabrielle! I had hoped it would be sort of small-scale and large-scale at the same time so I'm glad you saw it that way. Clarissa Aykroydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08571136118573329263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-607719101484462692.post-13115197223734116752015-06-07T15:22:23.528+01:002015-06-07T15:22:23.528+01:00This poem is both evocative and beautiful Clarissa...This poem is both evocative and beautiful Clarissa. It's like peeking into your mind through a trick mirror, a picture within a picture. Gabrielle Warrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04270717875109087105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-607719101484462692.post-91782103569344795442015-06-07T02:36:59.485+01:002015-06-07T02:36:59.485+01:00Thanks so much, Mark. I think that getting both yo...Thanks so much, Mark. I think that getting both your thoughts/feelings, and my own, out of the poem is a real compliment to it... I hope you're well... Clarissa Aykroydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08571136118573329263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-607719101484462692.post-40807505960944907712015-06-07T02:15:14.155+01:002015-06-07T02:15:14.155+01:00When I first read your poem, the first thing that ...When I first read your poem, the first thing that struck me was the vague melancholy which often assails me when in the proximity of a northern sea. But then, on a second, then third and fourth reading, I was filled with amazement at what YOU had actually written, rather than what I at first read into it, and had managed to pack so wondrously into just a very few lines. It's a real tour de force. Mark Mosherhttp://nordicmountain.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-607719101484462692.post-19300352829566679892015-06-06T23:09:35.096+01:002015-06-06T23:09:35.096+01:00Thank you so much, Tim - your words really mean a ...Thank you so much, Tim - your words really mean a lot! <br /><br />To write a poem that transports a reader is all I can ask for - and being mentioned in the same breath with Adam Zagajewski and Wallace Stevens is beyond high praise! Clarissa Aykroydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08571136118573329263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-607719101484462692.post-71213545250931942842015-06-06T22:59:28.564+01:002015-06-06T22:59:28.564+01:00I read your poem and was flummoxed -- how is it po...I read your poem and was flummoxed -- how is it possible for actual quality poems like this to be written in these current times? I read the poems of Adam Zagajewski, and Yves Bonnefoy isn't dead yet. High quality stuff. So it's always a pleasant shock to come across a poem by someone else whose work doesn't suck. <br /><br />I felt a kind of Wallace Stevens-ish dark ecstasy before your own great waters of mystery. Your lines are transporting, in a similar manner to Mahler's music. Tim Buckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02077264442946829918noreply@blogger.com