The poem had just come up in a crossword puzzle: 20 Across: "Cartoon character featured in the John Ashbery poem 'Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape.'" There are a lot of cartoon characters in that poem, but the answer is POPEYE.
I'd said to Grok: "That description of Olive Oyl and the poem title — 'Farm Implements' — made me think of this quote David Sedaris found in the biography of Jean Stafford: 'She was sharp-tongued and once described a fellow writer as 'looking as if she were pregnant with farm machinery.'"
That's in DS's new book (commission earned).
Well, I didn't have any more cross-literary sparks or Stafford zingers, so I said "No. Do you?"
And Grok was all "Yes — plenty." Etc.
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That description of Olive Oyl and the poem title — 'Farm Implements'
Did you just call Olive Oyl a "hoe"?
She dragged her through the dirt.
Daffy Duck in Hollywood goes all out with the cross-literary sparks. Ashbery’s best poem.
Okay, now you've done it, Popeye's pissed off.
"That's all I can stands, I can’t stands no more!"
Shelly Winters has a great two-part autobiography. I don't think I've ever read any other actor's biography, but I still believe this one is the best.
I have tried with John Ashbury. I really tried hard, for a class. I still can't get there. Maybe if he wrote poems about Shelly Winters.
I was at a reading 50 years ago where Ashbery presented his "bicentennial poem," "Pyrography." Of course it had little to do with the bicentennial and nothing to do with pyrography (the wood burning hobby kits popular years ago), but looking at it now I notice what might be coded references to the past and future of the nation, though nothing that could be distilled as an unambiguous message.
The first time I heard the percussion "instruments" in David's new book on Audible, I was in my car and I thought a wheel had fallen off.
I hear in San Francisco, they hate Ashbery.
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