Hm, law and peanut butter. Seems to me there ought to be a joke in that, but I can't find it. (By 'real' peanut butter, do they mean fresh-ground? It's very good. An entirely different food from processed peanut butter.)
I don't know if I have a favorite poem, per se, but I'm fond enough of Marilyn Hacker's "Mother" to have it memorized.
No one is 'woman' to another Woman. Except her mother.
As for fictional moments ... Samuel Delany is tough going, but I find a lot of his scenes coming back to me as metaphors for ... something or other. There's a scene at the end of Dhalgren where the narrator meets an astronaut in a bar and says, "Tell me something about the moon that no one else knows." The astronaut says, "I told the press everything important." The narrator says, "I don't mean important. I mean -- OK, look at the last bottle on the shelf. See how the level of the raised bottom of the bottle is just above the level of the liquid? That's not important. But no one would know it unless they'd been here."
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Date: 5/3/06 10:29 pm (UTC)I don't know if I have a favorite poem, per se, but I'm fond enough of Marilyn Hacker's "Mother" to have it memorized.
No one is 'woman' to another
Woman. Except her mother.
As for fictional moments ... Samuel Delany is tough going, but I find a lot of his scenes coming back to me as metaphors for ... something or other. There's a scene at the end of Dhalgren where the narrator meets an astronaut in a bar and says, "Tell me something about the moon that no one else knows." The astronaut says, "I told the press everything important." The narrator says, "I don't mean important. I mean -- OK, look at the last bottle on the shelf. See how the level of the raised bottom of the bottle is just above the level of the liquid? That's not important. But no one would know it unless they'd been here."