Sewanee Notebook

Does anyone else do this? Every Christmas I end up browsing through the Moleskine I keep in my back pocket and finding jottings of every stripe and shape: to-do lists, dates to remember, lines of poetry, quotes, restaurant names, and generally indecipherable fragments. I present a slice of the 'Sewanee' section of the notebook, with some strange and brilliant insights from some people much more talented than myself, presented in the form they were written:


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Galvin

when we say, what a shame, /
whose shame do we mean?

Wilbur- 'Crows Nest'
a poetry 'to make our
terrors bravely clear'

'Hamlin Brook'
-How can I drink
all this?

How should we dream
of this world w/o us
-Advice to a Prophet


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Ammons--This is only
a place, the reality
we agree with
that also agrees with us


'forays into the
known to go past the
known'--Bausch


'Passion is all, even
the sleaziest.'
-Robert Penn Warren


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DS [Dave Smith]
writing poetry is about
sex and death [big check mark next to this one]
07/17/09

-form is a window, beyond
which, half-seen, lies the poem

-past potential endings,
gaining momentum







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Sawyer

Saw dust edging
out from the hand.

DS-every poem must
have some threat

CE [Claudia Emerson]
Risk of asking questions
in poems is that we won't get
the answer we want


"Every once and awhile, say
exactly what you mean'
-Betty Adcock



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-coital inexclusivety-
Hudgins

'beauty is beauty
because of its flaws'
-DS


'the distance between
what the language says
and what we want it
to say'
-DS


Golden spoons [underlined twice]

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That's all for now. Perhaps more if people enjoyed this one. If not, here's a picture of puppy Boone in the snow: