Comments on: Readings from Wheeling Motel http://knopf.knopfdoubleday.com/2009/10/22/readings-from-wheeling-motel/ Knopf Doubleday Wed, 16 May 2012 19:08:01 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 By: Big Ron http://knopf.knopfdoubleday.com/2009/10/22/readings-from-wheeling-motel/comment-page-1/#comment-35955 Big Ron Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:20:04 +0000 http://knopfdoubleday.com/?p=5119#comment-35955 The line, "like Walt Whitman examining a tear on dead face," will stay with me for years. What a delight to hear these poems aloud. Tom Waits with a Captain Beefheart sensibility is the perfect vehicle for these works. The line, “like Walt Whitman examining a tear on dead face,” will stay with me for years. What a delight to hear these poems aloud. Tom Waits with a Captain Beefheart sensibility is the perfect vehicle for these works.

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]]> By: Howard Partch http://knopf.knopfdoubleday.com/2009/10/22/readings-from-wheeling-motel/comment-page-1/#comment-35889 Howard Partch Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:27:59 +0000 http://knopfdoubleday.com/?p=5119#comment-35889 Motels are shrines to disfigurements They stay in our memories As we run from their confining math with the four walls and sheets. We never forget the minutes spent, the lives changed as we stepped from one place to today. Motels are shrines to disfigurements
They stay in our memories
As we run from their confining
math with the four walls
and sheets.

We never forget the minutes
spent, the lives changed
as we stepped from one
place to today.

]]> By: photogirl2 http://knopf.knopfdoubleday.com/2009/10/22/readings-from-wheeling-motel/comment-page-1/#comment-35887 photogirl2 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:56:42 +0000 http://knopfdoubleday.com/?p=5119#comment-35887 What a wonderful poet Mr. Wright is! To hear his actual voice is such a treat - somewhat of a combination of John Malkovich and Tom Waits. He makes The Dark Side seem a like a place of adventurous resignation -- a place from which there can be a return. His work is magical inspiration for poetry lovers, and therapy for the disheartened. I can't wait to read his new book, and am happy to have his actual voice to supercede the one I already had for him in my head. What a wonderful poet Mr. Wright is! To hear his actual voice is such a treat – somewhat of a combination of John Malkovich and Tom Waits. He makes The Dark Side seem a like a place of adventurous resignation — a place from which there can be a return. His work is magical inspiration for poetry lovers, and therapy for the disheartened. I can’t wait to read his new book, and am happy to have his actual voice to supercede the one I already had for him in my head.

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