Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.
Dismiss
Re: Self Portrait / Will Dockery
13 views
Skip to first unread message
Will Dockery
Jan 9, 2018, 8:29:45 PM1/9/18
to
"Coco DeSockmonkey" wrote in message
news:61dc6aab-b408-436f...@googlegroups.com...
> On Saturday, December 30, 2017 at 12:13:57 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
>
>> "Who is John Galt?" -Ayn Rand
>
> Speaking.
That's the problem, all the kids want to be either Galt or Roark.
:)
news:61dc6aab-b408-436f...@googlegroups.com...
> On Saturday, December 30, 2017 at 12:13:57 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
>
>> "Who is John Galt?" -Ayn Rand
>
> Speaking.
That's the problem, all the kids want to be either Galt or Roark.
:)
Will Dockery
Jan 9, 2018, 8:29:45 PM1/9/18
to
"ME" wrote in message
news:779bbb89-019a-4a5c...@googlegroups.com...
>
> SHFKHTS!
Say what?
news:779bbb89-019a-4a5c...@googlegroups.com...
>
> SHFKHTS!
Say what?
Will Dockery
Jan 10, 2018, 12:01:52 AM1/10/18
to
No, I was trying out the writing of a Cento, you already know that,
Pendragon.
Pendragon.
Will Dockery
Jan 18, 2018, 12:48:24 PM1/18/18
to
On Friday, December 29, 2017 at 11:46:31 AM UTC-5, George J. Dance wrote:
> > On Friday, December 29, 2017 at 11:16:25 AM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
> >
> > > Self Portrait
> > >
> > > I'm an artist,
> > > a sculptor,
> > > my face is the granite.
> > > Watch me
> > > see me build myself anew.
> > >
> > > I see my face
> > > crumble and dissolve
> > > like idiot solvent.
> > > These wrinkled eyes
> > > seek out the idiot.
> > >
> > > I create... myself.
> > > From whatever pieces are handy,
> > > and I walk---
> > > a Golem with words to spare.
> > >
> > > Like a pigmy--
> > > like smoke in the air.
> > > Like a reality that does not care.
> > > Squint my eyes,
> > > stoned in the glare.
> > >
> > > Covered in patches
> > > I'll have a Brandy Alexander.
> > > Face like cut granite
> > > stand me in some court square.
> > >
> > > -Will Dockery / 2002
> >
> > I like this one a lot; too bad it has to be saved for a later book.
>
> I was just having an idea yesterday, that since the "Earlier Poems" book
> will take a long time to get assembled, why not put out a "Selected
> Poems", 32 or so of the "Best of Will Dockery", covering the entire 40+
> years of my poetry?
>
> "Self Portrait" could certainly fit in such a volume, whic you could
> selected and edit/publish, if interested.
>
> I got the idea yesterday when I pulled my Isaac Bashevis Singer "Collected
> Short Stories" volume down of the shelf yesterday for a re-read:
>
> http://www.thebookasylum.com/shop_image/product/000810_0cc62a2bf9a402c2b18f4f4b3d1b3783.jpg
>
> That cover design, coloring, font, everything, is perhaps my all-time
> favorite book desgn.
>
> > The writing, especially the opening, reminds me of /The Fountainhead/;
> > were you reading that around that time?
>
> That book, and Ayn Rand, was a big influence on me long before the Right
> Wing (wrongly, in my opinion) took that note, more on that later.
>
> As you know, Ayn Rand and her artistry/philosophy is a favorite topic of
> mine.
And, back to this thread, I was reviving my interest in Ayn Rand around the
time of this poem, yes... must have been about my fifth reading of The
Fountainhead by that point, 1999-2000.
:)
> > On Friday, December 29, 2017 at 11:16:25 AM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
> >
> > > Self Portrait
> > >
> > > I'm an artist,
> > > a sculptor,
> > > my face is the granite.
> > > Watch me
> > > see me build myself anew.
> > >
> > > I see my face
> > > crumble and dissolve
> > > like idiot solvent.
> > > These wrinkled eyes
> > > seek out the idiot.
> > >
> > > I create... myself.
> > > From whatever pieces are handy,
> > > and I walk---
> > > a Golem with words to spare.
> > >
> > > Like a pigmy--
> > > like smoke in the air.
> > > Like a reality that does not care.
> > > Squint my eyes,
> > > stoned in the glare.
> > >
> > > Covered in patches
> > > I'll have a Brandy Alexander.
> > > Face like cut granite
> > > stand me in some court square.
> > >
> > > -Will Dockery / 2002
> >
> > I like this one a lot; too bad it has to be saved for a later book.
>
> I was just having an idea yesterday, that since the "Earlier Poems" book
> will take a long time to get assembled, why not put out a "Selected
> Poems", 32 or so of the "Best of Will Dockery", covering the entire 40+
> years of my poetry?
>
> "Self Portrait" could certainly fit in such a volume, whic you could
> selected and edit/publish, if interested.
>
> I got the idea yesterday when I pulled my Isaac Bashevis Singer "Collected
> Short Stories" volume down of the shelf yesterday for a re-read:
>
> http://www.thebookasylum.com/shop_image/product/000810_0cc62a2bf9a402c2b18f4f4b3d1b3783.jpg
>
> That cover design, coloring, font, everything, is perhaps my all-time
> favorite book desgn.
>
> > The writing, especially the opening, reminds me of /The Fountainhead/;
> > were you reading that around that time?
>
> That book, and Ayn Rand, was a big influence on me long before the Right
> Wing (wrongly, in my opinion) took that note, more on that later.
>
> As you know, Ayn Rand and her artistry/philosophy is a favorite topic of
> mine.
And, back to this thread, I was reviving my interest in Ayn Rand around the
time of this poem, yes... must have been about my fifth reading of The
Fountainhead by that point, 1999-2000.
:)
Will Dockery
Jan 23, 2018, 4:50:12 PM1/23/18
to
above all here for the poetry.
Evidence being that I post more poetry here on the group and anyone else, by
far.
:)
0 new messages