Comments on: Sarah Palin, the poetry

By: Vickie Karp

Vickie Karp — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:57:48 +0000

Now that would be newsworthy.

By: Nick Obourn

Nick Obourn — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:32:41 +0000

I can see the John Ashbery in Palin. Perhaps she should blurb his next book? Or he should lend some kind words to her forthcoming book?

By: Vickie Karp

Vickie Karp — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:47:03 +0000

Hey Nick! I am still laughing over your Amish/ vampire Rumspringa line. But Amish vampires aside, there’s a little John Ashbery in Palin — the stops and starts, the missing sections in the middle. The way he captures thought as it tumbles out, before we arrange it to create a myth of ourself. Except, of course, he makes sense and has wonderful ideas and opinions embedded in his lines. And orchestrates his leaps carefully to create second and third intended meanings. But other than that, interchangeable.

By: Nick Obourn

Nick Obourn — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:17:02 +0000

I hope everyone is ready for more of her eloquence. I cannot wait until she begins her run for president and the nightly news is filled with her oddly wonderful rhetoric. I will not be sad when she loses, however.

By: Brian In NYC

Brian In NYC — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:42:08 +0000

Maybe it’s because she’s so dizzy!

By: Vickie Karp

Vickie Karp — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:34:17 +0000

As with all good politicians, if we like the way it plays, we’ll find a way to make it mean something.

By: Brian In NYC

Brian In NYC — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:50:12 +0000

I suspect her door is the revolving kind (I’m not sure what that means but I like the sound of it).

By: Vickie Karp

Vickie Karp — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:29:37 +0000

Hey Jeff! So so true. It is voyeurism, because she thinks she’s invited us to see her, but she doesn’t seem to know what we’re seeing when we take her up on the offer. Like a cat or a fighting fish, she knows it’s not good, but what is it, what is it? Rumsfeld projected nothing but I know what it is and you don’t. Who’s more fun or frustrating? It’s a toss.

By: Jeff Tietz

Jeff Tietz — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:10:54 +0000

Vicki –
I love this. Tho’ I hope Don Rumsfeld plagues us no more but instead receives unto himself plague-like symptoms, I have to admit I miss his freestyling. And while he was frequently impenetrable, Sarah Palin does in fact seem to come unhinged before our very eyes—so much that she sometimes instills in me a kind of voyeur’s guilt: I know I should turn away, but just don’t have the strength …

By: Vickie Karp

Vickie Karp — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:07:38 +0000

And remember, Sarah, as one unhinged door closes, another opens.