tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171487865623213768.post7617653254607741746..comments2024-03-29T05:15:20.833-04:00Comments on The Storialist: On Creativity (featuring Dick Jones)Hannah Stephensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15792203070774504501noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171487865623213768.post-64037554042584333732012-06-04T13:57:09.288-04:002012-06-04T13:57:09.288-04:00Small world...I'm a friend of Dick's as we...Small world...I'm a friend of Dick's as well...thanks for stopping by Willow Manor today...Tess Kincaidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04889725786678984293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171487865623213768.post-62135268122840509562012-05-25T14:15:16.619-04:002012-05-25T14:15:16.619-04:00Hannah, thank you so much for this interview,for s...Hannah, thank you so much for this interview,for sharing Dick's poems in his own voice,and especially for eliciting this wonderful response to your question! We don't often get such detailed and perceptive glimpses into a poem's genesis or the creative process and I feel enriched and grateful to both of you!Bethhttp://www.cassandrapages.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171487865623213768.post-22318286623252384852012-05-25T14:03:13.207-04:002012-05-25T14:03:13.207-04:00Thanks so much for this, Hannah. The honour's ...Thanks so much for this, Hannah. The honour's mine: you know how much I admire and enjoy your poetry.<br /><br />And thank you, William, for the kind comments. A crasser and more opportunistic person than myself would invite you to purchase a copy of 'Ancient Lights' via Amazon or the publishers as above. Not my way, though!Dickhttp://patteran.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6171487865623213768.post-85880250044334363602012-05-25T11:27:54.623-04:002012-05-25T11:27:54.623-04:00Thanks again, Hannah, for pointing me in a new and...Thanks again, Hannah, for pointing me in a new and interesting direction. Mr. Jones has a luscious density of wordsmithery, with lots of fragrant flowers along the way: <br /><br />"two grotesques trapped in a box of shadows"<br /><br />"our faces swung inwards like wind-borne / lanterns, light smudged into heat"<br /><br />"light and time reiterate / and the notes of dust stand still"<br /><br />"we germinate / as we do / because we arch / with pain and pleasure /<br />through the same /parabola the same / hoop in the air /that same air we all breathe."WAShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10403669322174979974noreply@blogger.com