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WEEk 24, 2019
Rachael McKenna
The Centuries-Old French Tradition of
Making Pots With Clay, Rope, and Wood... 4
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Film Review
Film Insights
ALL PHOTOS BY AHRON R. FOSTER
Mark Jackson grew up in Spring Val-
What Our A Great Monster Movie Slathered
ley, N.Y., where he attended a Waldorf
With Mark
school. At Williams College, his pro-
fessors all suggested he write pro-
fessionally. He acted professionally
Readers Say: Jackson
for 20 years instead. Now he
With Heavy-Handed Preachiness
writes professionally about
acting. In the movies.
Vulcan Productions all photos courtesy of Warner Bros.
Ian Kane Through some rather preachy, quasi-scientific gob-
B
bledygook, audiences are treated to heavy-handed
It’s the only sane newspaper It's bringing morality ack in 2014, director Gareth Edwards kick- lectures about how bad humans are and why we
started a new monster-movie franchise must be exterminated in order to save the planet
amidst all this insanity. back to newspapers. with the film “Godzilla.” Well, sort of. For from destruction.
STAN K., PASTOR LISSA T., BUSINESS OWNER those not keeping a tally, the 2014 film was Monarch believes Alan to be a war profiteer who
actually a reboot of an even more mind-drubbingly sells monster DNA to the highest bidder. However, it
awful flick: 1998’s “Godzilla.” is later revealed that the eco-cult’s leader is actually
Looking to up the ante and go big or go home, the a hardcore ideologue who thinks that the creatures
director of “Godzilla: King of the Monsters” makes must be awoken as quickly as possible in order to
It's the only paper that You're presenting the the film a direct sequel to the 2014 “Godzilla,” as the terrorists’ objective: global genocide.
well as to “Kong: Skull Island,” 2017’s reboot of the Early on in the film, Emma resonates with Alan’s
I know of right now that facts and letting the Vietnam-era setting of the equally popular big- nihilistic musings and is onboard with waking
actually gives you the honest, reader decide. screen monster known as King Kong. the slumbering monsters. In their twisted views,
old fashioned journalism. TERRI B., BUSINESS OWNER All of these films are tied together by a shadowy
organization called Monarch, which just so hap-
humanity deserves to be punished for its various
“transgressions” against the Earth.
DRUE L., BUSINESS OWNER pens to specialize in giant-monster research. Alan plans to kidnap Emma and use her newly
The problem is that the Hollywood showcasing invented device, which acts as a dog whistle so
of fractured families has seemingly been kicked powerful that it can awaken the biggest and most
into overdrive of late, and this film is no different. dreadful of all of the monsters: a three-headed,
Everything I read in it is fair and balanced, While there are appearances made by some of the lightning-spewing dragon called King Ghidorah.
compared to other newspapers. cast and characters from the 2014 film—including The main bulk of the film focuses on the rush
JUNE V., RETIRED BANKER
Journalist Chutima “Oi” Sidasathian (L) and Patima Tungpuchayakul, an agent of the Labour Rights monster-researching specialists Ken Watanabe to awaken the ultimate threat, and the counter-
Promotion Network, seeking escaped Thai fisherman slaves, in “Ghost Fleet.” (“The Last Samurai”) and Sally Hawkins (“The force—comprising Mark Russell and an army of
Shape of Water”)—the main focus of this latest film Monarch scientists and soldiers—to stop that from
$1
is on a family in crisis. happening.
‘Ghost Fleet’
Interspersed between gratuitous heapings of
Meet the Family wooden exposition are the giant-monsters’ battles,
The family in question is composed of doctors Mark which overall are quite impressive. Some serious
and Emma Russell (Kyle Chandler and Vera Farmi- monster carnage goes down once the cantanker-
ga) and their introverted daughter Madison (played ous beasts get all stompy-stompy over major met-
by “Stranger Things” star Millie Bobby Brown). (Top) A monster that needs no introduction, in “Godzilla: King of the Monsters.” ropolitan areas, which act as mere set pieces for
FIRST MONTH! Why Sushi Can be Bad For The trouble began when Madison’s older brother
died five years earlier, while Godzilla was duking
it out with some MUTOs (Massive Unidentified
(Above) Millie Bobby Brown as Madison Russell in the film “Godzilla: King of the Monsters.” orange-fireball-infused mayhem and destruction.
Former low-budget horror-filmmaker Michael
Dougherty (“Superman Returns,” “Krampus”) has
Your Spiritual Health
(Top) Anne (Isabelle Huppert)
and her husband, Peter Terrestrial Organisms), in the 2014 film. ‘Godzilla: King of the Monsters’ The Preachiness transitioned into the big leagues with quite a bang,
(Chris Noth), have grown The boy’s death acted as a catalyst for deeper What’s interesting about “Godzilla: King of the and these scenes are absolutely stunning under his
conflicts between the parents. Mark believes that Director Monsters” is how the Earth’s various factions per- direction. We witness gigantic winged monsters
apart over the years. Michael Dougherty
(Above) Anne and her all of the giant monsters must be exterminated ceive the monsters. For instance, while the govern- emerging from volcanoes alight with lava, light-
beloved son (Justice Smith). for humanity’s survival, while Emma thinks that Starring ments of the world collectively believe that the ning bursts from dragons that level entire cities,
Mark Jackson
(Right) Anne and her son’s bour Rights Promotion Network (LPN) looking out they can be communicated with through a special Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, creatures should be tracked down to their under- and a monster bug-bird overcoming an F-15 jet
A
girlfriend (Odessa Young). for these lost men, and LPN’s Patima Tungpuchay- sonar device that emulates whale songs. While the Millie Bobby Brown, Charles Dance ground lairs and blown up, Monarch views them and snapping its nose clean off. This is the stuff
ircraft carrier decks are notoriously the most akul is the star of “Ghost Fleet” in two respects: She’s estranged couple bickers, they use Madison as a not as “monsters” but as mighty Titans that once of the wildest fantasies of an overactive mind of a
dangerous of all boat decks: Fighter-jet the proactive protagonist driving the narrative, and human weapon against one another. Rated ruled Earth and were duly worshiped by prehis- prepubescent. And that’s the way a giant-monster
Subscribe @ tailhook arresting cables can snap, whip she gets the most screen time—as well she should. Meanwhile, Monarch has discovered that the PG-13 toric civilizations. movie should be.
around faster than the speed of sound, She tracks leads, follows trails, scouts and sleuths, giant monsters they’ve been studying are part Running Time There’s another faction consisting of a gaggle It’s just unfortunate that “Godzilla: King of the
ReadEpoch.com and instantly cut a man in two.
The Alaskan crab boats featured in the hit show
entering dangerous areas where proverbial angels
fear to tread, fueled by great compassion.
of an archaic cavalcade of, well, giant monsters
that predate dinosaurs. These big baddies sup-
2 hours, 12 minutes of crazed eco-terrorists. Headed up by British ex-
Special Forces veteran Colonel Jonah Alan (Charles
Monsters” is slathered with so many preachy, anti-
human, and anti-family messages. Because some-
“Deadliest Catch” are just as dangerous: There may The story is told by three activists, actually. In port a Hollow Earther’s dream come true, as it’s Release Date Dance of “Game of Thrones” fame), this motley crew where underneath it all is a good monster flick.
be fewer ways to die on them than onTHEATER May 31
an aircraft REVIEW
addition to Patima, there are journalist Chutima explained by the researchers that these massive of unhinged maniacs always seems to be one step
carrier, but the crew members are basically coked- “Oi” Sidasathian and former slave Tun Lin. All of creatures can travel from one side of the Earth to ahead of Monarch. Ian Kane is a filmmaker and author based out
up and sleepless for months at a time. them have, as their life’s mission, the heart to save the other by navigating a sprawling, inter-Earth These eco-terrorists see Godzilla and his ilk as a of Los Angeles, California. To see more, visit
WHEN THE
Thai fishing boats are no joke either, however. In these trafficked souls. (According to the website, tunnel system. sort of remedy to what they call the “human virus.” DreamFlightEnt.com
TRUTH AND TRADITION the documentary “Ghost Fleet,” we hear of a man nearly 3,000 have been repatriated to date.) The film
MIND FAILS
who got his hand caught in a pulley—he lost all his accompanies them as they embark on one of their
35 COUNTRIES • 23 LANGUAGES fingers. Another man got his neck caught in a rope many missions, sailing from Thailand to the seas in
snaking across the deck—he was immediately de- and around the Indonesian archipelago, where they
capitated. And also ... one shipmate witnessed the hope to provide hope for lost slaves.
captain stab a boy to death in front of him. By the way, in 2017 Patima Tungpuchayakul was
Wait, what?!! Yes. Navy sailors and crab boat per- nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
sonnel go to work out of their own free will—“Ghost
Fleet” is about slavery. Thai fishermen are trafficked. Escapees
Who knew? When during the activists’ mini-odyssey, they run
Thai fisherslaves do endless, backbreaking work across escaped slaves from Cambodia, Thailand, and
JUDD HOLLANDER
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Activist Patima
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(Chris Noth), have grown apart over the years,
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ALL PHOTOS COURTESY OF YANNICK FOURBET UNLESS NOTED OTHERWISE Rachael McKenna Rachael McKenna Rachael McKenna
Craftsmanship
The Centuries-
Old French
T r a d i t i o n of
Making
Pots
With Clay,
The traditional
use for these
Biot pots was
to store grain;
Rope, and
the teardrop
design protects
the grain from
vermin.
Wood Fourbet’s 3-year-old twins, Mortimer (L) and Augustin, hide behind one of his
olive jars.
Yannick Fourbet with his family—wife Philippa and 3-year-old twins, Mortimer (L)
and Augustin—in their Domaine Rewa vineyard on New Zealand’s South Island.
An interview Anduze pots from Le Chêne Vert, into
New Zealand.
with ‘The French Le Chêne Vert specializes in Anduze
pots, a pot design that dates from 1610
because they do not transform them.
I think what is very important to me
Mr. Fourbet: Definitely. It’s some kind
of a talent. You’ve got to have a little bit
drying process; it usually takes a
week to remove all the ropes. If the
Potter’ in New and that was inspired by Italy’s Medici
vase. Anduze pots are traditionally
is this idea of being able to transform
a raw material into a finished product
of courage as well because in this day
and age, where everything is geared
rope is taken out too early, the pot will
collapse. So that’s an interesting part
Zealand made from a mold and decorated by
the maker’s medallion and a garland.
and having an opportunity here to
sort of participate in a change and a
toward technology, you may be led
into thinking that doing something
of my work, and one that allows for
reflection and meditation as well.
Fourbet also makes pots by using shift in the New Zealand economy with your hands is not neces- Then, the pot has to dry for about
an age-old traditional technique that at my level, which is only sarily interesting from a month to a month and a half. And
Lorraine Ferrier uses clay, rope, and wood. The tech- a small business. I can financial perspective. then I apply either a patina or a glaze.
nique allows him to make huge pots; get clay here in New The only interest The pot then goes under fire for 72
The photographs show an almost the largest he’s made has been 772 Zealand, and I can seems to be going hours, up to 2,012 degrees Fahrenheit,
quintessential French landscape, pounds. Fourbet is limited only by the transform it with toward making but in several phases; you can’t go (Left)
where a vast expanse of green grass size of his kiln. my skills, thanks to more and more to 2,012 degrees Fahrenheit straight The Roman god
disappears into a distant mountain At Le Chêne Vert, Fourbet worked Le Chêne Vert, to money, and we away. Bacchus, hand-
range. In the foreground, rows and with customers such as Christian Dior actually make a Kiwi still never learn: Here, I have to be really careful sculpted by
rows of grapevines are all neatly and the city of Montpellier, to name pot with rope and The money in and make that temperature transi- Fourbet on one of
covered in an ocean of white netting. a couple. The pottery workshop also plywood. itself is not an end. tion very slow because, otherwise, his Anduze pots.
There are even olive trees and what supplied Anduze pots for the Trianon I don’t want to everything breaks down and explodes
appears to be a traditional French garden at the Palace of Versailles. In The Epoch Times: How sound presumptu- in the kiln.
country house, its brown-gray stone the 17th century, King Louis XIV’s long has the rope tech- ous, but it’s such a sat-
softened by roses, lavender, and bay landscape architect, André Le Nôtre, nique for making pots been isfaction to realize five or The Epoch Times: What would you
trees, some of which are in pots. at Versailles was believed to have around? six pots a day and just to clean like people to know about your work?
This is the home of Yannick commissioned Anduze potters to Mr. Fourbet: This technique may up my workshop—and this is probably Mr. Fourbet: We have our own brand
Fourbet, his Kiwi wife Philippa, make pots for the Trianon garden, ac- have existed in the Neolithic era, but my favorite part: when I look at what of biodynamic wine, and there are
and their 3-year-old twins, Augus- cording to Fourbet. it’s not proven. I’ve accomplished at the end of the wonderful opportunities for my
tin and Mortimer. They live not in Here, Fourbet tells us how he began I asked the man who taught me day, and it has materialized as a pot. trade in the wine industry, or so it
France, but in the foothills of the making pottery with clay, rope, and where the technique might have seems, and that is to be able to make
Pisa mountain range on the South wood and what’s in store for his new come from. He said there used to be a The Epoch Times: How do you make a amphoras, clay vessels, in which the
Island of New Zealand, at their Do- pottery venture in New Zealand: The cabinetmaker in a village called Biot pot using this rope technique? Georgians have been making wine for
maine Rewa biodynamic vineyard French Potter. in Provence, who showed an interest Mr. Fourbet: I start by drawing the 2,000 years. Where it ticks the box for
and olive orchard. Biodynamic in making pottery. He used plywood pot on several sheets of paper so I have us is that we’re on a biodynamic vine-
farming is an organic method that The Epoch Times: How did you learn and ropes to shape the pots by coiling the basic shape and an idea of what yard and we will be using clay from
also takes into account environmen- the rope technique of making the rope around a plywood frame and it’s going to look like in real life. the vineyard to make the amphoras
tal factors such as the rhythms and pottery? then by applying clay onto the rope. Then, I cut a whole set of 12 to 25 for our wine.
phases of the sun and moon. Yannick Fourbet: I learned to make Most people think that these pots pieces of plywood that I fix between A lot of vintners have approached
Incidentally, the French-style pots with most of my employees at were used to store oil due to its water- two discs, along a vertical axis, with me, since they know that I’m settling
house was already there when first, and then slowly but surely, I drop shape. I found out recently that one disc on the top and one disc on the here, and they’ve asked me if I will be
Philippa bought the property. Maybe learned from a man I got to meet who this is not true; they were originally bottom, which basically makes available to make amphoras for them.
it was waiting for Fourbet. actually showed me how to use the made to store grain, and the reason a wheel. I would like to keep The French
Fourbet first met Philippa in 2012 rope technique to make pots. Unfor- they have this water-drop shape was I then coil several lengths of sisal Potter a one-man workshop, maybe
in the South of France, at his pot- tunately, he is dead now, but his name to prevent mice, rats, and all kinds of rope around this plywood structure, two people, but I don’t want to grow
tery studio Le Chêne Vert (The Green was Dilbert Serrs. pests from getting into the grain. which gives it rigidity, and on the side big. I’m not here to make millions. I’m
Oak), in Anduze. It was love at first I met him at a ceramic arts festival This is the way the ancestors used to of the structure I fix a movable board here to maybe transmit something
sight: “Philippa fell in love with the in a town near where we were making make things. Everything they made which adjusts the thickness of the pot that I know and also make a good liv-
pots before she fell in love with me, pots in our workshop in Anduze. It had a function as well as an aesthetic against the rope. ing, sufficient enough so I can provide
the potter,” Fourbet said on was summertime and it was really purpose. If I had to define my work to- Then I shape the pot: I apply clay for my family, and that’s all really.
the phone. hot. He was demonstrating how to day, I would say it’s halfway between onto the rope itself and slowly turn
Philippa and Fourbet met again in make his pots. Everybody was willing art and craftsmanship. the plywood and rope frame, scrub- To find out more, visit:
2013, this time in London, when Four- to watch, but they never really both- bing off any surplus clay and putting TheFrenchPotter.co.nz
bet invited her to the Royal Horticul- ered to find out if he was thirsty or The Epoch Times: It sounds like being it back on the rope as I go.
tural Society Chelsea Flower Show, not, so I went and got him some water. a traditional craftsman holds a certain I then slowly take out the wooden This interview has been edited for
where he was exhibiting his pots. He was really touched by that. responsibility. structure and the ropes during the clarity and brevity.
From then on, they began a long- I started talking to him, because I
distance romance, traveling between was physically closer to him. At the
France and the UK, where Philippa was time, I had nine employees in France.
working in investment banking. And I said, “I would like to train my staff in
then when Philippa moved to Domaine this technique that you’re preserving,
Rewa, both traveled between France which is obviously ancestral. Would
and New Zealand. In 2016, Philippa you be amenable to do that?” And he
joined Fourbet in France. said, “Yes, definitely.”
Fourbet says he fell in love with This is traditionally how our skills
Philippa first, and then he instantly were transmitted from one genera-
fell in love with New Zealand when he tion to another. In the past, often-
visited Domaine Rewa for the times people took on the jobs that
first time. their friends were doing, or that their
In 2018, the family settled in New grandfathers were doing, and this is
Zealand. The primary reason for the how you get a generational buildup of
move, Fourbet said, was for a good life techniques.
for the twins: “We want them to grow I would like to be able to do that
up in a rural environment with people here in New Zealand if I can. In years
with good values, and we think New to come, if I can share what Serrs has
Zealand is a wonderful country shared with me, with a young man or
for that.” young woman who is interested, I will
“We’re both Catholic, and we really gladly do it.
believe in achieving something on One of the things that I have noticed
earth and something positive,” from living here now for 18 months
he said. or so is that there’s one thing that is
Fourbet is starting afresh in New missing when looking at New Zea-
Zealand. His sister has recently land-made crafts: The country has got
bought his share of Le Chêne Vert. wonderful natural resources, but they
Now, he will import traditional do not add value to their resources
Yannick Fourbet carefully wraps sisal rope around the ply- Clay is applied directly to the rope in order to shape the pot. Fourbet embellishes each pot by hand. An Anduze cup being prepared in Fourbet’s workshop in France; it can take An Anduze cup by Yannick Fourbet, at the 2013 Royal
wood frame. a week to slowly remove all the rope. Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show in London.
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Public Domain
It was here that it suddenly dawned on me
that traditional poetry had no desire to be mar-
ginalized and swept into the dust bin of history.
There was simply a disbanded and disillusioned
army of passionate poets and appreciators wait-
ing for the right moment to reconnect and stage
a comeback.
Shortly after my coworker’s words, he and I
launched a website and called it the Society of
Classical Poets (ClassicalPoets.org). I soon found
that, indeed, there is a scattered mass of poets
who love traditional poetry and do not love
I Like to
how they are being treated by the ruling poetry
world.
For example, New York University professor
Dr. Joseph Salemi said he submitted poems to
state poetry competitions all over the nation.
These contests are sponsored by the official
Read Other
state poetry societies. In the end, he concluded,
“There is absolutely no point at all in submit-
ting formal poetry to any ‘mainstream’ contest.
It will be eliminated in the very first round of
readings by stupid student interns.”
People’s Mail
This development of the binary poetry
universe has been long in the making. In 1982,
living British poet and composer Humphrey
Clucas wrote the following satiric lines to ex-
press frustrations similar to those of Dr. Salemi
(note that “scan” in the poem refers to using
meter) in his poem subtitled “Dear Sir, We only
Susannah Pearce accept modern poems…”:
I
like to read other people’s mail. Don’t worry, I only read the mail Do not rhyme and do not scan—
We’ve cancelled rules, they’re so outdated.
of dead people. Mainly dead people whose books I’ve read. Let Carve the lines up how you can
(Lower case, unpunctuated).
me explain: I like to read published letters of my favorite authors.
Avoid allusions, never quote,
erstock
No foreign names, and (God!) no gods.
We’re trying to strike the modern note,
a/shutt
A magazine for ignorant sods.
astyrsk
The Mistranslation That Destroyed Rhyme
If you keep old letters,
you are giving a gift to The phenomenon described in Clucas’s poem
has been accumulating for over a century since
yan-Mon
historians of the future.
the rise of modernism started breaking poetry’s
time-honored rules. One major event contrib-
Vir a M yl
uting to the usurping of rhyme and meter was
when the modernist Ezra Pound translated the
poetry of the great Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai,
also known as Li Po, in 1915 and presented it as
It’s time to revive the maligned art of traditional poetry. “Six Tuscan Poets,” circa 1544, by Giorgio Vasari. (L–R) Marsilio Ficino, Cristoforo Landino, great poetry.
Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio, Dante Alighieri, and Guido Cavalcanti. Minneapolis Institute of Art. “Of course it is great poetry,” everyone
Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs thought (over three decades before communism
I’m currently dipping into two volumes of Samuel one. Perhaps they also knew these would be Public Domain seized control). It comes from the Golden Age of
selected letters: Willa Cather’s to virtually Clemens, also worth saving from a historical point of view. that great 5,000-year-old civilization of China.
everyone she corresponded with in her whole known as And, thank goodness. However, in his translation, Pound un-
Rhyming
life (“The Selected Letters of Willa Cather”) and Mark Twain. I worry about our future in this respect. derstandably decided to leave out the rhyme
those between Mark Twain and his good friend, Everyone is “going paperless.” What are future and meter that was contained in the Chinese
author William D. Howells (“Selected Mark biographers to use for this peek inside the original in order to focus on its meaning. This
Twain–Howells Letters 1872–1910”). private lives of today’s interesting people? Even (possibly inadvertently, possibly not) had the ef-
The first I sought on purpose to become better if email and text messages could be retrieved, fect of showing the world that great poetry need
Poets
acquainted with Miss Cather while reading one those media don’t really lend themselves to the not have rhyme and meter. In fact, throughout
of her books; the latter I came by accidentally at same kind of warm expression as actual letters. history, traditional Chinese poetry, including Li
a library sale. Ironically, though electronic media affords Bai’s, has had rhyme and meter.
us unlimited space to put down our thoughts, This modernist bait-and-switch by Pound
Getting to Really Know Them we employ them for more abbreviated commu- feeds into the larger misconception that un-
After spending time with them, imbibing their nication than was used in tangible letters on bridled freedom (in poetry’s case, free verse) is
Stage
imagination through their fiction, I often long costly paper. Funny, but it doesn’t make best suited to our multicultural and globalized
to know authors themselves. Biographies are me LOL. world. However, this is not the case!
a great way to learn some of the facts of their In fact, the universal principles found in
lives, but letters really allow one to get to know In Praise of Paper traditions—here expressed in rhyme, meter, and
them. Biographies, after all, will nearly always Paper used to be a serious commodity. A well- profound appreciation for discernible beauty—
Rousing
betray the bias and interpretation of the biog- heeled correspondent of earlier days could is what truly connects the world and brings
rapher. Letters are the raw material, the real walk into a stationer’s shop and choose from people together.
deal—unintentional autobiographical entries. any number of weights, finishes, and sizes of Since our launching in 2012, the Society
Some books just make one wonder: What writing paper. of Classical Poets has grown into a nonprofit
kind of person could write a story like that? When I see a shop these days devoted to just organization with members across the world,
Flannery O’Connor comes to mind in this Dinner Parties I Would Love to Have Attended one obscure product, I am tempted to think, millions of readers each year, daily poetry, an
Return
category, and I suggest that one simply cannot As enjoyable as it is to read Twain’s clever pub- “Mafia money laundering!” How else in the annual journal, and an annual poetry competi-
Meeting
grasp the fullness of her weird stories with- lished works, it is pure delight to see that his world does a shop selling only socks stay in tion that awards thousands of dollars in prizes.
out knowing the very un-weird woman who wit and warmth were not just a studied facade, crowds of business? That wasn’t the case for stationery This year, it was co-judged by Dr. Salemi.
wrote them. J.R.R. Tolkien is another case but were the reciprocal delight of his witty and dead people shops when people routinely wrote letters.
Li Bai, as depicted in the “Nanling Wushuang Pu” (a
in point. warm friends in real life. through Don’t get me wrong; not all this paper was
collection of 40 illustrations depicting historical fig-
The First Poetry and Culture Symposium
There are other authors of whom we can’t get Twain himself wished he could bridge the lovely. There was, even then, cheap and miser- But all of the society’s achievements so far have
enough. When we run out of their books but gap of distance between him and good friends.
their letters able stuff wrung from forests of massacred
ures spanning from the Han to the Song dynasties) only been laying the foundation for what is to
collapses by Jin Guliang, Ming Dynasty.
wish we could spend more time with them, When the house next-door was for sale, he trees. But the destruction of those trees could come. We will hold our first “Poetry and Culture
where do we go? To everything else they wrote! wrote to Howells, in an 1874 letter, “You or the be vindicated by the conveyance of wonderful Symposium” at the Princeton Club on June 17
Oh, why did Jane Austen not continue writing Aldrich or both of you must come to Hartford obstacles of thoughts and sentiments preserved for poster- Evan Mantyk submitted some poems somewhere and went to in Manhattan, where Dr. Salemi will speak, as
delightful stories for us instead of dying at age to live. … You can do your work just as well here ity. A case in point is this letter, from Cather some poetry readings. Soon I realized that the well as leading British poet James Sale, cultural
41? It couldn’t be helped, I suppose, and she did as in Cambridge, can’t you? Come, will one of both space to Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant in 1913. She “What is poetry?” A simple enough question, people, like myself, who were still stuck in the vanguard Michael Maibach, and U.S. World War
write letters, so those will have to do. you boys buy that house? Now say yes.” and time. began, “Dear Elsie, Damn this paper? Yes, but and if asked in sincerity would most likely be 10-year-old’s poetry world were now a dying I Memorial sculptor Sabine Howard.
Public Domain
They do very well, in fact. I may sit in her I’d have said yes, if asked! What fun it must I got a lot by mistake and I have to use it up on asked by someone under 10 years old. Most breed. They were few and far between, they If you have felt estranged from the world of
parlor and go on holiday with her and hear have been to attend a dinner party at the people who know the worst of me. As soon as I people would answer that 10-year-old, “Oh, were called marginalizing names like “rhymer” poetry and the arts in general, or still find a bit
her complaints and opinions. She becomes my Clemenses’ home. (Mark Twain’s real surname really care about people, I begin to give ‘em my you know…” and rattle off names or bits of or “McGonagall” (a 19th-century Scottish poet of charm in tradition, then this is the perfect
virtual friend by virtue of knowing her more was Clemens.) Upon his return from a Euro- worst—always.” verse from Mother Goose, Dr. Seuss, or Shel who wrote terribly contorted poetry in order opportunity to take a new look and rediscover
intimately through her letters. pean trip five years later, Twain was clearly You see why I love Willa Cather so? I hope Silverstein, or probably with less success to a to achieve rhyming), or their verse was called the foundational art form that underlies nearly
impatient to see his friend. When he had no she would have used her lousy paper to write 10-year-old, Shakespeare, Poe, or Longfellow. “doggerel,” and they were often confronted all of our literature, and which is still a great
Literary Networking word from him a mere five days after his vessel to me, had we met. I would surely have written And that, in truth, is poetry to most people. with poetry contests that specifically prohibited pleasure to read for old and young alike.
Not only do I come to think of these long-dead docked, Twain sent this letter to Mr. Howells: her back on a paper towel, it being the only pa- But what qualifies as poetry today looks rhyming poetry. For poetry, culture, and the arts, this event
and long-admired writers as my friends, but I per really easy to come by these days, there not very different from that answer. Leading poets Henry Wadsworth At this point, I was ready to leave poetry will be the equivalent of the First Continental
have met many of their friends, as well. Imag- My Dear Howells: being a stationery shop handy anywhere. today, in terms of book sales and in terms of Longfellow. behind and continue my life, as most people Congress that launched the United States of
ine my delight on learning that two authors Are you dead – or only sleepeth? When I recently looked for a simple pad of being able to maintain a job in the name of with English degrees do. It seemed that I was on America, except that this time the British, who
whose works I have enjoyed were friends with We are all well, & send love to you & yours by letter-writing paper, even the gargantuan poetry (meaning almost exclusively college the wrong side of history. However, something can claim most of the greatest English-speaking
each other. Willa Cather and Sigrid Undset the hand of online everything seller yielded no results. English professors), use poetry in a different changed all of that. poets, are very much on our side.
met through the publisher Alfred Knopf while Yrs Ever Happily, I found a pad at the grocery store! Of way. The rhyme, meter (consistent rhythm), It was at my first job out of college, a news- It is an exciting moment best described, I
Courtesy of Joseph Salemi
Undset took refuge in America during World Mark. course. That is, after all, where I go when I’m and relatively straightforward narrative style paper, where I was talking to another bottom- think, with some words from the great Ameri-
War II. They even shared an interest in flower- picking up what’s needed for entertaining of the Mother Goose writer, Shakespeare, and rung reporter like myself. It turned out that can poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem
ing plants and exchanged specimens with one It elicited an immediate reply from Howells, dear friends. ancient Greek poets like Homer have been he wrote rhyming poetry too and similarly “A Psalm of Life,” which was the first poem I
another to add to each other’s gardens. It was eager to meet. What a happy meeting it must replaced by poetry that chiefly conveys its feel- had found the poetry world frustrating. He read that really shook me and awakened me to
their friendship that compelled me to seek have been! Susannah Pearce has a master’s degree in ings, insights, and observations in a multitude said something like, “If you started your own the power of poetry:
Cather’s “Selected Letters” during my phase of theology and writes from her home in of ways that defy a readily describable order. website, you could accept traditional poetry.
Undset fervor. Keepsakes, Relics, and Primary Sources South Carolina. In the here and now of adults, this is the pre- That would be something great I would submit Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
Willa Cather introduced me (through her let- It’s remarkable to me that so many letters Public Domain dominant form of poetry, known as free verse. to.” Somehow, the gravity of his statement is And our hearts, though stout and brave,
ters) to a friend from her college years, Dorothy from so many interesting people from so many A bestselling lost when I recount it from my foggy memory Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Canfield. While they may have had a falling years ago have been saved from destruction, author from The Dual Poetry Universe here. It is better when rendered through the Funeral marches to the grave.
out, I have gotten to know Canfield through treasured, and made available for our present the early 20th Free verse’s often heady approach and un- Joseph Salemi. lens of classical poetry. Here’s how I imagine my
reading some of her works, including “Under- enjoyment. Thankfully, decluttering is a recent century, Dorothy bounded mechanics, while speaking to some, friend’s request and my response: In the world’s broad field of battle,
stood Betsy,” “Self-Reliance,” and “The Home phenomenon, following upon the other recent Canfield was very ardent supporters, does not speak to most In the bivouac of Life,
Maker.” I also share her interest in the work phenomenon of buying too much unimportant introduced to people today for whatever reason. It could be “If you could raise the crumbling roof Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
me, via letters, Be a hero in the strife!
of Italian educator Maria Montessori, which stuff. Don’t expect a future volume of “Selected that the internet, movies, TV, and modern nov- Of rhyme and meter,
by Willa Cather.
she made known in America after her travels Letters” from the currently popular declutter- els have rendered all poetry meaningless. Or It would to eyes like mine be proof
through Europe. ing superstar Marie Kondo! it could be that the heady and often indiscern- That there’s a leader Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant!
While becoming better acquainted with When people save letters, it shows a love and ible approach of free verse, without the jingly With a place that we can flock to Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Mark Twain, I have enjoyed meeting William respect for the person who wrote them. There jangly meter and rhyme, never catches on with ‘Mid the battle, Act—act in the living Present!
Howells by way of their correspondence. I may be a stack of old love letters tied with a people under 10 years old, who then grow up Where the soulless bombs might rock you, Heart within, and God o’erhead!
have discovered that among Howells’s notable ribbon in a trunk in your attic. They contain and retain that 10-year-old’s definition, which Make you rattle,”
friends and colleagues are Oliver Wendell not only the thoughts and sentiments of the they tell to the 10-year-olds who asks them, So saying, my coworker starts Evan Mantyk is an English teacher in New York
Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo sender but also little slices of history. A letter cycling on and on. At any rate, for whatever Emitting light, and president of the Society of Classical Poets.
Emerson, and even Abraham Lincoln. History is a bridge to a moment in the past as well as to reason, a binary poetry reality has been cre- And Heaven’s cloudy curtain parts
and literature surpass the notion of mere aca- a person removed from one’s presence. These ated: In one reality, free verse reigns supreme; The gloomy night.
demic subjects when we come see these folks as words were conceived in someone’s mind and in the other, rhyme and meter never lost their
The Society of Classical Poets will hold its
regular people living their lives in an intercon- formed by that person’s hand on this right to rule. (By the way, this poetry form is called an alex-
nected way. Just as we do. very paper. Into this strange, dual poetry universe, I android and was invented by the great living first “Poetry and Culture Symposium” at the
Networking has never been easier! Meeting The keepers of these epistles kept a part of the stumbled after graduating from college. I poet Jared Carter of Indiana.) Princeton Club on June 17 in Manhattan.
crowds of dead people through their letters col- sender in their drawer. For some, the motiva-
lapses the obstacles of both space and time. tion was love—a memento, a relic of the loved
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Week 24,
12, 2019
Theater Review
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created human beings.
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dom to them and paved
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such as a shelf in the side of the piano. David’s
the way for them to This paved the way for human culture to
develop, whereby people were able to prop-
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David, who now calls himself Don Colman, in elderly died from old age, Nu Wa established
Chinese tradition as
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the common ‘birthday’
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whatever Mother wants, later performs a lively such luminaries as Joan Crawford, Hedy Lamarr,
song-and-dance number, paired with David’s and the luscious Latin beauty Dolores Del Río. Diana Barth writes for various arts
day-job boss Mr. Forman (Ray DeMattis). As they The orchestra, consisting of Phil Reno (piano and publications. She may be contacted at
kick up a storm, the two elders bemoan the un- music direction), Perry Cavari (drums), and Mi- diabarth99@gmail.com
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