Comments on: The Return of the Thursday Short Poem: Dunn’s “John & Mary” http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/08/31/the-return-of-the-thursday-short-poem-dunns-john-mary/ Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:37:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: annika http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/08/31/the-return-of-the-thursday-short-poem-dunns-john-mary/#comment-25347 annika Fri, 01 Sep 2006 02:09:58 +0000 http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/08/31/the-return-of-the-thursday-short-poem-dunns-john-mary/#comment-25347 that is really cute, accidental or not! that is really cute, accidental or not!

]]> By: wolfa http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/08/31/the-return-of-the-thursday-short-poem-dunns-john-mary/#comment-25346 wolfa Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:47:47 +0000 http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/08/31/the-return-of-the-thursday-short-poem-dunns-john-mary/#comment-25346 Yes, I figured as much. I'm just tired of seeing the same carefully crafted sentences go out as "hee hee, accidental wit", and tend to point it out. I don't know how to get in touch with the poet. I really like your Thursday short poem series (I'd like it even more if there were a list of them, category or somesuch, because I miss them occasionally). It actually reminds me of a short story by Diane Schoemperlen, in her collection 'Forms of Devotion'. I cannot recall the name of the story, and I can't find my copy of the book, but it's a good collection and worth reading. Yes, I figured as much. I’m just tired of seeing the same carefully crafted sentences go out as “hee hee, accidental wit”, and tend to point it out. I don’t know how to get in touch with the poet.

I really like your Thursday short poem series (I’d like it even more if there were a list of them, category or somesuch, because I miss them occasionally).

It actually reminds me of a short story by Diane Schoemperlen, in her collection ‘Forms of Devotion’. I cannot recall the name of the story, and I can’t find my copy of the book, but it’s a good collection and worth reading.

]]> By: Hugo http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/08/31/the-return-of-the-thursday-short-poem-dunns-john-mary/#comment-25345 Hugo Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:44:03 +0000 http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/08/31/the-return-of-the-thursday-short-poem-dunns-john-mary/#comment-25345 Well, wolfa, I'm just takin' Dunn's word for it here... but you're right, it's almost too spectacularly good to have been written by a frosh. Well, wolfa, I’m just takin’ Dunn’s word for it here… but you’re right, it’s almost too spectacularly good to have been written by a frosh.

]]> By: wolfa http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/08/31/the-return-of-the-thursday-short-poem-dunns-john-mary/#comment-25344 wolfa Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:42:47 +0000 http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/08/31/the-return-of-the-thursday-short-poem-dunns-john-mary/#comment-25344 It's a lovely poem, though the initial quote is neither an accident nor a student's work -- it's from either a Bulwer-Lytton contest or one of the Style Invitational WaPo contests (or something like that), and those things are hard to write. It’s a lovely poem, though the initial quote is neither an accident nor a student’s work — it’s from either a Bulwer-Lytton contest or one of the Style Invitational WaPo contests (or something like that), and those things are hard to write.

]]> By: Vacula http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/08/31/the-return-of-the-thursday-short-poem-dunns-john-mary/#comment-25343 Vacula Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:43:32 +0000 http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/08/31/the-return-of-the-thursday-short-poem-dunns-john-mary/#comment-25343 If you missed it, you'd probably enjoy reading Mark Peter's article <a href="http://chronicle.com/weekly/v52/i49/49c00201.htm" rel="nofollow">Like a Bowl in a China Shop</a> about <a href="http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/" rel="nofollow">eggcorns</a> (from the August 11 <i>Chronicle of Higher Education</i>) If you missed it, you’d probably enjoy reading Mark Peter’s article Like a Bowl in a China Shop about eggcorns
(from the August 11 Chronicle of Higher Education)

]]> By: Ed http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/08/31/the-return-of-the-thursday-short-poem-dunns-john-mary/#comment-25342 Ed Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:31:49 +0000 http://hugoschwyzer.net/2006/08/31/the-return-of-the-thursday-short-poem-dunns-john-mary/#comment-25342 Nice - this reminds me a lot of <i>Non Campus Mentis</i>, another source of "accidental student genius". Nice - this reminds me a lot of Non Campus Mentis, another source of “accidental student genius”.

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