The Summit of Everest
I champion all my Opposition;the dangerous poem, Padilla, is Me.I undo my authorand I returnto deepest limestone, to deepest sea.
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MAH,I am extremely (extremely!) impressed with your allusion to the Padilla case, and it is apt. For those who don’t know about it, here it is: Rumsfeld v. Padilla, 542 U.S. 426 (2004). I quote from...
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Cher MSS You are a swell guy. But you misoverestimate me by a wide margin. My Padilla is Heberto, the Cuban poet. Can't tell you how tempting it is to keep mum over that!In any case, perhaps I could...
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Mark,It is the title and these lines that open up vistas for me:"I champion all my Opposition;the dangerous poem,"I did not know of the Padilla case, but in context with the Summit of Everest,those...
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“He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency; but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.” – Samuel JohnsonIt...
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Cher Sarah You are a swell gal :-) Our last posts crossed each other in cyberspace...glad you enjoyed. It's a bit a of a rude abridgement of the longer version, which I felt really got lost in S3,...
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MAH,At this point, I’m not sure if you were referencing the Padilla case or not. I think not. lolBeating yourself with a poem again? MSSEdit - I wrote that while reading your revision and didn’t see...
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I like the mysterious nature of your poem, told in succinct quality. Rick
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The most dangerous poem is "ME." There is no greater Everest. The last enigmatic stanza shows that even at a mere physical level, we find the end of our poem is our beginning. Love it. Rich
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Dear Rick Nice to have you stop by... Thank you for taking time to comment on this one. Best wishes Mark
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Dear Rich I was fascinated to learn recently that the summit of Everest is in fact marine limestone. Struck me as an apt metaphor for the words that you and I and the rest of us here work with, words...
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Hi Mark I am not familiar with Padilla but I am going to interpret this poem by my first instincts. I see this as a challenge to climbing that mountain to the ultimate poem, the quintenssential one...
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Dear Wendy Your thoughts are pretty accurate. It's a kind of self-criticism... Sometimes of a poem ever "comes together" properly, it feels right to credit it to an "anti-Me", something I have no true...
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Mark I was intrigued by the poem and happy that the mention of Padilla refers to the Cuban poet. Regards, Maryse
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Dear Maryse Thank you from dropping in :-) I came across Padilla only obliquely, and have read almost nothing of him except this:No lo olvides, poeta. En cualquier sitio y época en que hagas o en que...
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