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By: N.Shum-Ish

N.Shum-Ish — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:15:00 +0000

Well, I’m hoist too. Huck is the noble savage, illiterate yet articulate. But via Twain’s sharp yet subtle pen Mr Finn is testily (but nobly) sending us all up for our affectation to even think the first consonant could be enunciated some archaic way closer to the Roman, as if spelling it “civ” or “siv” mattered.

By: Margaret

Margaret — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:37:02 +0000

I really appreciate that you highlight lesser-known poets. As a young aspiring poet myself, I find reviews like this to be very encouraging. Thank you!

By: David Kaufmann.

David Kaufmann. — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:34:38 +0000

My apologies. I didn’t read the question correctly or check my check. Yes, it should be sivilize. And the English, who are wonderful at insult in all its forms, deserve better than what I (mis)wrote here.

By: miha

miha — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:14:10 +0000

@N.Shum-Ish

“sivilize” makes the English insulted? The English who gave us Shakespeare, and the sense o humor will capture this much better than most Americans, some of them unable to read poetry, never mind Karen’s poetry

By: Henry Braun

Henry Braun — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:09:24 +0000

After Reading ‘With A Bang’

There are two kinds of power, the grand CATHEDRAL and the manger, the
CASTLE OF THE EMPEROR and the thatched hut of a Basho(or a Weiser.) None of us has to choose, but may be chosen. And all of this in one world.
A Plato, a Kant, an Aquinas chooses to know all, A Jesus. a Mohammed, a Buddha to save all. A Homer, a Dante, a Shakespeare to say ALL. We may sing our some. Our sum!

By: N.Shum-Ish

N.Shum-Ish — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:04:50 +0000

Mr. Clemens wrote “sivilize” for comic dialect. The English, knowing their Latin and perhaps tending to “civilise,” would feel insulted.

By: miha

miha — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:58:09 +0000

@Rachel,

Just type Karen Weiser on Google, and you discover her poems, some bio, published poems here and there. It is very original voice. I have not read anything similar:

She is not readily accessible to anyone. Great poets rarely are. A poetry reader is like student one student in a classroom: some learn faster, some take longer, some never learn what some words are all about.

I am somewhere in upper middle group of poetry readers. David Kauffman review opened my eyes. The analogy with Huckleberry Finn is amazing.

“The novel of Mark Twain’s is about a young boy, Huck, coming of age. It is a story of Huck’s struggle to win freedom for himself and Jim, a runway slave. The many adventures that Huck goes on become a learning process to maturity by learning to be self-sufficient, sic “sivilize”, adverse, and adventurous.”

Here is another poem I found of Karen

—start—
To Light Out

To light out is to burst into young legs
toward an opening in the newly made wild
toward the stain of gold machines we have set in motion
around the curtain of bad weather

in the opening of its glimpse the conversation flutters like gardens that are the garden’s brother
I say Pass me my book of gardens
to cultivate a generosity of opening

You say the gardens are heavy with saffron associations
and we are kneeling in its applied territory
a blistered web of circumstance
is distributing the way we desire ourselves
having been built by these environments

Take your horn out of the night garden of constellations
and vow me a club of body
an endlessly opening frontier of rapid sketches
pressed between the pages of knowing
—end—

To light out, is the other option than letting others to “sivilize” us.

At any age, we need “young legs” that we can get as soon as we see “an opening”, a new wild that few others see.

The Exodus is exactly having this vision. This week’s parsha, Eikev, about conquering the New Land is one of many examples of “lighting out” in our tradition.

By: David Kaufmann.

David Kaufmann. — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:43:16 +0000

I like to switch off. One month I write about an established poet and the next I try to write about a lesser-known one. I would like to introduce readers to good poets they might not otherwise find–that is, writers who come from “left field.” So I wrote about her precisely because her poetry is enjoyable and I hope that others will agree with both you and me.

Actually, she is not quite out of left field–she has been publishing chapbooks and giving readings for the better part of a decade.

In my edition of HUCKLEBERRY FINN, Twain does indeed spell it the English way.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:35:21 +0000

It’d be nice to know why you’ve chosen to write about Karen Weiser. Her writing is enjoyable but I have no idea who she is and why she’s come out of left field.

Also, did Twain spell “civilize” with an “S”?