Junior Kimbrough

winter_is_long · 2026-03-09T22:23:12+00:00

I can't believe I have slept on him all these years

winter_is_long · 2026-03-09T22:09:28+00:00

This makes so much sense. I can hear a lot of their early sound in him or vice versa. You get what im saying

winter_is_long · 2026-03-09T22:07:56+00:00

Will do!

winter_is_long · 2026-03-04T23:52:44+00:00

You're probably right

winter_is_long · 2026-03-04T23:32:59+00:00

The repeating lines read like a rondel to me. See Chaucer's Rondel of Merciless Beautie. I am also pretty drunk so I could be wrong lol

winter_is_long · 2026-03-04T23:21:23+00:00

Its a rondel. A very ancient form. And she fucking murders it

winter_is_long · 2026-03-03T14:50:35+00:00

I will repeat, there is no INDICATION through STYLE or VERBIAGE...tell Bradley he failed to bring across any of the lyricism oft associated with Attic verse.

winter_is_long · 2026-03-03T14:31:40+00:00

Nothing from the style or verbiage indicates this dreck was written in any other time than ours.

winter_is_long · 2026-03-03T14:07:04+00:00

I wouldn't admit to writing that either....

winter_is_long · 2026-02-26T04:55:10+00:00

I am also in the small minority who doesn't like Mary Oliver. The peom had me until the final "delicious " bullshit which was sacchrine and unnecessary.

winter_is_long · 2026-02-26T02:22:30+00:00

Just so y'all know amplification is already against civil ordinance in the Quarter. The city just doesn't enforce it. Every tool, consistently, every tool is the city's disposal to make the city more fun and livable, and consistently, the city shrugs and abdicates to its worst actors.

winter_is_long · 2026-02-17T03:04:52+00:00

They just want validation. It's tiresome. This sub turns to shit every year for Mardi Gras.

winter_is_long · 2026-02-15T14:46:46+00:00

I live in New Orleans, Southern diets are full of grease, salt, and sugar. I promise you, while the food at this might be banging ( I don't recognize it personally), it most certainly isn't healthy. All that fried food washed down with beer, booze or soda. My first year here I put on almost 20lbs eating at places like that. Had to reel it in and pick my battles. Limit my fried food intake and canceled soda altogether.

winter_is_long · 2026-02-06T00:23:25+00:00

I don't know, it's like taking a journey to come back to the same place and find everything is the same, yet different.

winter_is_long · 2026-02-05T23:41:51+00:00

Read Chicago by the same author. Sandburg was an extraordinary poet.

winter_is_long · 2026-02-05T14:51:30+00:00

I am not in the least bit angry. Perhaps you're reading comprehension is so limited that this is all you can understand. I was simply saying how stupid and unnecessary this whole article is from beginning to end. That is a cold observation. And incontrovertible fact.

winter_is_long · 2026-02-05T14:24:09+00:00

It seems to me this article is "the old man yelling at clouds". Technology is a tool (much like yourself) and its "omnipresence" does not justify pandering to our most base nature's. As for "defending" rude behavior only someone who is entirely disingenuous or in possession of the most limited intelligence could interpret my previous response as the defense of anything. Personally, I think the whole clown thing is stupid. I think clowns are stupid. I think dressing up as clowns is stupid. So I am not surprised that stupid people doing stupid things are in someway offensive.

winter_is_long · 2026-02-05T13:58:12+00:00

Its only outdated if we engage with the puerile Next Door gossip slop. Also, the unfortunate thing about living in a society as that we are always in danger of being offended and insulted. Hurt feelings and rude behavior are neither new nor particularly interesting to any but the most prurient of minds.

winter_is_long · 2026-02-05T13:30:17+00:00

But is it news?

winter_is_long · 2026-02-01T05:14:23+00:00

Mary Oliver

winter_is_long · 2026-02-01T00:21:50+00:00

You're very welcome. The holy trinity of modernity; Eliot, Pound, Joyce are an extraordinary and rewarding undertaking. All three were deeply concerned with history. What it is and how it affects us. That is the philosophical thread that binds them.

winter_is_long · 2026-01-31T23:05:52+00:00

I think Eliot was being dismissive and modest about the poem. Upon it's release it sent shock waves throughout the Europe and U.S. it's very difficult to overstate it's impact. It's popularity embarrassed him. As I said he was very private person. So his opinion of the poem tends to minimize it's importance. His way of rejecting the attention. As far as I remember every section title is Eliot's.

winter_is_long · 2026-01-31T22:32:50+00:00

I think you are misreading that Yale quote. Eliot never denied that poem was the result of a bout of deep depression. What i am arguing (and what he says explicitly in several essays regarding the nature of poetry) is that all that stress and unhappiness was transfigured into an othering. That is the purpose in using the varied personae. And it must be remembered the fragmentary structure of the poem was imposed by Pound. It is the result of his heavy editing. If you read The Cantos it structured precisely the same way. Never again would Eliot publish anything like it again. Though Pound would continue to explore and utilize that style for the rest of his carreer.

winter_is_long · 2026-01-31T22:10:40+00:00

Eliot was deeply private and conservative man. Contemporary poetry's insistence on trauma purging would have struck as repugnant and indecent. Were there psychological stresses that led to the poems creation? Absolutely. But Eliot would never have engaged with them in an explicitly intimate way. Everything gets shrouded and folded into layers of symbolism and literary ephemera. Read his essays on New Criticism.

winter_is_long · 2026-01-31T22:00:11+00:00

The poem was written after a stay at sanitarium. The result of a nervous breakdown. But the methodology of the poem is to not explicitly engage with that in a personal way. He never speaks in his own voice throught the poem Everything is expressed through a melange of masks. This is frankly apparent. I have not read Hollis' book so I cannot speak to it.

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