tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26800186.post4385593646096231921..comments2024-03-25T10:07:31.278-07:00Comments on There is no such thing as a God-forsaken town: Poetry Friday: Ode to the OnionRuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12463332371535167975noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26800186.post-63347774849393361012014-03-15T04:27:30.056-07:002014-03-15T04:27:30.056-07:00This is beautiful! I love finding the sacred in su...This is beautiful! I love finding the sacred in such an ordinary object.Jessica Stockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08944990982584233095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26800186.post-37333162257486082712013-12-03T06:37:42.793-08:002013-12-03T06:37:42.793-08:00That's it. It's settled. I hope I come b...That's it. It's settled. I hope I come back as an onion in my next life.Michelle Heidenrich Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02051827857519159837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26800186.post-33241873053860529502013-12-02T17:58:33.200-08:002013-12-02T17:58:33.200-08:00Such a wonderful poem, and I love hearing that you...Such a wonderful poem, and I love hearing that you are using Neruda as a model for your students! Have you seen the new collection called ALL THE ODES, edited by Ilan Stavans (terrific translator) who brings together for the first time all 225 of Neruda's odes in a bi-lingual edition (and translated by 18 wonderful poets such as Philip Levine, W. S. Merwin, Jane Hirshfield, and Mark Strand)? It just came out this fall from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Julie https://www.blogger.com/profile/12811523890920763782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26800186.post-44328351161417120992013-11-29T20:10:36.493-08:002013-11-29T20:10:36.493-08:00Wow that Neruda sure knew how to make a vegetable ...Wow that Neruda sure knew how to make a vegetable feel great! It makes me wish I could be an onion. Are his odes collected in one volume, do you know?Violet N.http://vnesdolypoems.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26800186.post-40895206816074814192013-11-29T17:36:43.331-08:002013-11-29T17:36:43.331-08:00So in love with the way Pablo Neruda crafts odes t...So in love with the way Pablo Neruda crafts odes to the mundane, elevating them to something so extraordinary - compelling us to view them yet again and again. :)GatheringBookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04477710897574769648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26800186.post-48364171286962985522013-11-29T10:22:48.471-08:002013-11-29T10:22:48.471-08:00and the fragrance of the earth lives
in your crys...and the fragrance of the earth lives <br />in your crystalline nature.<br /><br />How did he do it?! Each lines builds on the one before and everything leads to these...perfect.Tara @ A Teaching Lifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07195982194362559883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26800186.post-15652674580898624562013-11-29T07:16:53.377-08:002013-11-29T07:16:53.377-08:00I'd love to see your students' odes, too R...I'd love to see your students' odes, too Ruth. I've used Neruda's examples with my students when we wrote too. This is great, he can do no wrong in my eyes! Love "transformed into a curled golden feather". Thank you!Linda Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14983144542632353870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26800186.post-30462101572233782662013-11-29T06:43:00.485-08:002013-11-29T06:43:00.485-08:00Wow! Don't think I will ever look at onions in...Wow! Don't think I will ever look at onions in the same way again! Thank you for this reminder to be grateful!Carolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13294455230627182656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26800186.post-16610796239189165032013-11-29T06:02:24.917-08:002013-11-29T06:02:24.917-08:00Huzzah for onions! And again for garlic! The spice...Huzzah for onions! And again for garlic! The spice of life, both born in secret under the soil!!<br /><br />Great poem! Thanks for making me hold onions in my mind and consider them so thoroughly!Mary Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09078793537148794310noreply@blogger.com