National Poetry Month

[seraphcelene]

I'd like to start the morning with a PSA.

Public Service Announcement

Please do not, for the love of God and the little baby Jesus, please DO NOT rent The Return. I know we all want to support SMG's film career, but that is an hour and a half of your life that you will NEVER EVER EVER get back. So, don't do it. Just Say No!

end PSA

Now, on to more interesting and important news.


moireach turned me on to the fact that April is National Poetry Month and every day she gives us a new poem to appreciate. This year I've decided to do the same because there's alot of great poets and great poems out there. Including our very own, yhlee. Since I'm offline on the weekends, you'll only get one five days out of seven. I hope you enjoy.

Stella Rosetta by Yoon Ha Lee

No poem survives its own
translation. No poet is Delphi
to language future. There remains
no panegyric turn
of phrase.
The minds who read your lines
in times to come
have never heard
the voice of Homo
sapiens. You are writ
with
words
collapsed, distorted, information
clusters at the singularity
edge of
truth.

Comments

[thawrecka]

That bad, huh?

[seraphcelene]

HORRIFYING in the worse possible way. BORING, SLOW, barely SCARY and poorly written.

I will take the time now, however, to HIGHLY recommend The Pretige, which I really want to do a post on ... because ... made of awesome!!

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

I loved The Prestige. Dueling magicians! What's not to like?

[seraphcelene]

OMG!! And they went SO FAR!! I couldn't BELIEVE it!

[lettered.livejournal.com]

Weirdly, my family rented both The Return and The Prestige in one go. I didn't even *want* to see The Return, but my parents thought I'd like it because SMG. So I was all, let's watch The Prestige! because I really wanted to see it.

It didn't *work*.

So we ended up watching the Return after all and omg. It's way worse than you say.

[seraphcelene]

It didn't *work*.

WHAT?! No way!!! You missed awesomeness! The Prestige is so very very awesome!!! Like a2zmom said: Dueling Magicians!

And it goes so wrong!!

[lettered.livejournal.com]

Worse.

[seraphcelene]

I started to say that The Return sucked monkey balls, but then I decided that that would be an insult to monkey's everywhere, not to mention the peopleother monkey's who love their balls.

But then I thought, hey, if I invoke the name of Our Father AND our lord and savior Jesus Christ, Amen, then people would understand how serious I am when I say that this movie is awful.

It isn't even worthy of the mockage. It's just BAD. Horribly, Horribly bad.

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

Than you for printing this poem. It's exquisite.

[seraphcelene]

Yay! I'm glad that you enjoyed it. I wanted to start with a bang and Yoon's original work is particularly breathtaking, so I thought that it was a great way to begin.

[lettered.livejournal.com]

That's an awesome poem. The more I read, the more I like. Yhlee is so very talented. Did she post it on lj, and if so, do you have a link so I can leave fb?

[seraphcelene]

Yhlee is another thing in the universe that is made of awesome. The poem was originally publised in Strange Horizons:
http://www.strangehorizons.com/2006/20060313/lee-p.shtml

As far as I can tell her original stuff doesn't get posted to LJ.

[lettered.livejournal.com]

oh, that makes sense! 'Cause of rights and stuff. Thanks for the link!

[moireach.livejournal.com]

Yay poetry!

[seraphcelene]

I know!!! I'm excited. There's always so much lovely and fascinating pieces to discover!!

[diachrony.livejournal.com]

I read all the comments too and now I really, really want to see The Return.

'Cos I'm like that.

I have to see for myself just how bad it is!

How could you tempt me so?! I have to find out or I'll never stop wondering. I'll become obsessed. Hee!

[seraphcelene]

NOOOOOO!! Don't do it!! Don't!! You'll never get that hour and a half back of your life. I mean, ninty minutes of your life just gone, phfftt! Gone!!