Comments on: Letter with May’s Insatiable Hunger Tagging Along http://www.vianegativa.us/2009/05/letter-with-mays-insatiable-hunger-tagging-along/ How can we live without the unknown before us? —Rene Char Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:48:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Todd http://www.vianegativa.us/2009/05/letter-with-mays-insatiable-hunger-tagging-along/#comment-10847 Todd Mon, 18 May 2009 22:08:37 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=4688#comment-10847 Thanks, Deb! Thanks, Deb!

]]> By: Deb http://www.vianegativa.us/2009/05/letter-with-mays-insatiable-hunger-tagging-along/#comment-10846 Deb Mon, 18 May 2009 20:11:32 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=4688#comment-10846 The last line is perfect. Yes. Please get in the poetry kitchen. I'm ready for the next course, meal, helpings, leftovers. (I've enjoyed this series, even if I don't comment often.) The last line is perfect. Yes. Please get in the poetry kitchen. I’m ready for the next course, meal, helpings, leftovers.

(I’ve enjoyed this series, even if I don’t comment often.)

]]> By: Todd Davis http://www.vianegativa.us/2009/05/letter-with-mays-insatiable-hunger-tagging-along/#comment-10845 Todd Davis Mon, 18 May 2009 14:23:35 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=4688#comment-10845 Clive, No chance of me and advertising coming together. In fact, I read that to my wife and she had a good laugh imagining me in a suit and tie peddling whatever the company gives me to peddle. I'm only trying to sell the beauty of poems to my students most days. Enjoy the 'Prince' of potatoes tonight in all his glory! And thanks! Clive,

No chance of me and advertising coming together. In fact, I read that to my wife and she had a good laugh imagining me in a suit and tie peddling whatever the company gives me to peddle. I’m only trying to sell the beauty of poems to my students most days.

Enjoy the ‘Prince’ of potatoes tonight in all his glory!

And thanks!

]]> By: Clive Hicks-Jenkins http://www.vianegativa.us/2009/05/letter-with-mays-insatiable-hunger-tagging-along/#comment-10844 Clive Hicks-Jenkins Mon, 18 May 2009 10:42:56 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=4688#comment-10844 D'you know Todd, I just can't get the notion of those potatoes out of my head, and I don't think I'll be able to do so until I've satisfied the unendurable craving your beautiful words have conjured. Please never ever go and work in the advertising department of some company flogging potato chips or confectionary, or we shall all be sunk. Here in the UK the Jersey Royal is always deemed to be the 'Prince' of 'new season' potatos, and it's just starting to appear on the grocery shelves. I think I shall have to drive into Aberystwyth to seek some out for supper tonight. But seriously, a lovely piece of writing. Thank you. D’you know Todd, I just can’t get the notion of those potatoes out of my head, and I don’t think I’ll be able to do so until I’ve satisfied the unendurable craving your beautiful words have conjured. Please never ever go and work in the advertising department of some company flogging potato chips or confectionary, or we shall all be sunk.

Here in the UK the Jersey Royal is always deemed to be the ‘Prince’ of ‘new season’ potatos, and it’s just starting to appear on the grocery shelves. I think I shall have to drive into Aberystwyth to seek some out for supper tonight.

But seriously, a lovely piece of writing. Thank you.

]]> By: Todd http://www.vianegativa.us/2009/05/letter-with-mays-insatiable-hunger-tagging-along/#comment-10843 Todd Mon, 18 May 2009 00:28:04 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=4688#comment-10843 Lucas, All I can say is "Amen" to smacking some of our ancestors, and to future generations I ask forgiveness for our mindless/clueless ways. Thanks for your kind words about the poem. Lucas,

All I can say is “Amen” to smacking some of our ancestors, and to future generations I ask forgiveness for our mindless/clueless ways.

Thanks for your kind words about the poem.

]]> By: lucas http://www.vianegativa.us/2009/05/letter-with-mays-insatiable-hunger-tagging-along/#comment-10842 lucas Sun, 17 May 2009 21:33:14 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=4688#comment-10842 <i>a river of butter and milk, salt and sugar</i> ---like a flow of metaphors for the essence of potato: off-white, glistening, savory, sweet. And to think that, for centuries, it was thought beneath human consumption. Sometimes you just want to <i>smack</i> some of our ancestors. A beautiful well-grown poem, Todd. a river of butter and milk, salt and sugar

—like a flow of metaphors for the essence of potato: off-white, glistening, savory, sweet.

And to think that, for centuries, it was thought beneath human consumption. Sometimes you just want to smack some of our ancestors.

A beautiful well-grown poem, Todd.

]]> By: Todd http://www.vianegativa.us/2009/05/letter-with-mays-insatiable-hunger-tagging-along/#comment-10841 Todd Sun, 17 May 2009 18:31:18 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=4688#comment-10841 Beth, Leslee, and Peter, I'm glad the poem and the potatoes were seasoned to your liking. Your kind words make me want to get back in the poetry kitchen! Beth, Leslee, and Peter,

I’m glad the poem and the potatoes were seasoned to your liking.

Your kind words make me want to get back in the poetry kitchen!

]]> By: Peter http://www.vianegativa.us/2009/05/letter-with-mays-insatiable-hunger-tagging-along/#comment-10840 Peter Sun, 17 May 2009 12:20:11 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=4688#comment-10840 This is wonderful, Todd. Great last line, too. This is wonderful, Todd. Great last line, too.

]]> By: leslee http://www.vianegativa.us/2009/05/letter-with-mays-insatiable-hunger-tagging-along/#comment-10839 leslee Sun, 17 May 2009 12:19:25 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=4688#comment-10839 Yes, beautiful. And makes me want to gorge myself a little on life today. Yes, beautiful. And makes me want to gorge myself a little on life today.

]]> By: beth http://www.vianegativa.us/2009/05/letter-with-mays-insatiable-hunger-tagging-along/#comment-10838 beth Sat, 16 May 2009 17:18:57 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=4688#comment-10838 This is absolutely beautiful: whole and firm as a new potato plucked from its trench. This is absolutely beautiful: whole and firm as a new potato plucked from its trench.

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