{"id":4265,"date":"2005-12-10T16:11:30","date_gmt":"2005-12-10T20:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/12\/10\/pamelas-plump-robin\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:54:20","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:54:20","slug":"pamelas-plump-robin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/12\/10\/pamelas-plump-robin\/","title":{"rendered":"pamela’s plump robin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This time last Saturday, I came into possession of a lovely <\/font>haiga<\/font><\/a> bookmark\u00a0painted by Susan Frame<\/a>, with a haiku <\/font>by Pamela Miller Ness.<\/a>\u00a0 I want to share it with you, just <\/font>as Pamela shared it with those attending the Haiku Society <\/font>of America Metting. <\/font>Click here<\/a><\/em><\/font> to see it in color, full-sized.<\/font><\/p>\n

\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0\"NessPlumpG\"<\/font><\/div>\n
muddy puddle<\/strong><\/em><\/font><\/div>\n
a plump robin<\/strong><\/em><\/font><\/div>\n
a plump robin<\/strong><\/em><\/font><\/div>\n
\n

from <\/font><\/em>Reeds<\/font><\/em><\/a> 3<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There never seems to be enough new\u00a0haiku and senryu from <\/font>Pamela.\u00a0 <\/font>One very good reason is her work over the past few <\/font>years with the tanka <\/font>genre of poetry, including editing\u00a0The Tanka Anthology<\/a><\/em> (Red Moon Press, <\/font>2003) with Michael McClintock and Jim Kacian. <\/font>I haven’t presented tanka yet, at this website.\u00a0 But I hope to whet your <\/font>interest in the 5-line poems by sharing two of Pamela’s, which appeared <\/font>last year, along with several others, in Simply Haiku<\/a><\/em> 2:3 (2004):<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

\n
We feed the ducks
\nyou & I
\nand
\nthe laughing little boy you
\nhave begun to become.<\/font><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
…………………………….. <\/font>American Tanka<\/em> #7 (Fall 1999)<\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

<\/font><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/font><\/em>Packing
\nMother’s library
\nI tuck
\nthe ribbon I gave her
\ninto a new book<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

…. unrolling the awning<\/em>, (Grand Central Station Tanka Cafe, 2003<\/font><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…… by Pamela Miller Ness<\/font><\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\"NessPlumpN\"<\/font><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you’d like to learn more about tanka poetry, see Michael McClintock’s <\/font>Introduction to Tanka<\/a>\u00a0at Simply Haiku<\/em>, and the Tanka Definition<\/a> page of <\/font>the Tanka Society of America.\u00a0 McClintock notes: “While poets continue <\/font><\/font>to experiment, the contemporary tanka in English may be described as <\/font><\/font>typically an untitled free-verse short poem having anywhere from about <\/font><\/font>twelve to thirty-one syllables arranged in words and phrases over five lines, <\/font><\/font>crafted to stand alone as a unitary, aesthetic whole\u2014a complete poem.”\u00a0\u00a0 <\/font><\/font>In Footsteps in the Fog <\/em>(Foster City, California: Press Here, 1994), Pat <\/font><\/font>Shelley gives a more literary perspective:<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

\n
“Tanka in English is a small lyrical poem that belongs to everyone. <\/font><\/font>Still written in thirty-one or fewer syllables in five rhythmic lines, as <\/font><\/font>it was over 1,200 years ago, it can embrace all of human experience <\/font><\/font>in its brief space with emotions of love, pity, suffering, loneliness, or <\/font><\/font>death, expressed in the simplest language. It may sometimes seem <\/font><\/font>fragmentary or lacking in unity because it is more intuitive than analytical, <\/font><\/font>using imagery rather than abstractions . . . . One of the more challenging <\/font><\/font>(and charming) of its elements is the subtle turn at the center of the poem, <\/font><\/font>something unexpected perhaps, usually occurring after the second or third <\/font><\/font>line as two seemingly unrelated events, images, or ideas are brought <\/font><\/font>together, something less than narrative, an elliptical space that adds <\/font><\/font>pleasure to our listening. Tanka is about our everyday lives in the smallest <\/font><\/font>happenings, a little song of celebration.”<\/font><\/font> <\/font><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/font><\/font>\u00a0<\/p>\n

potluck<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 <\/font><\/p>\n

\"sparrow\"\u00a0 <\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font>\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"tiny From the plump to the political:\u00a0 I can’t let the week pass without noting <\/font><\/div>\n
Hillary Clinton’s tryout as Comp<\/em>ander-in-Chief.\u00a0 As\u00a0a New York Times<\/em><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
editorial <\/font><\/a>noted, “Senator Clinton, in Pander Mode” (Dec. 7, 2005),\u00a0\u00a0Hillary <\/font><\/div>\n
Clinton is co-sponsoring a bill to criminalize the burning of the American <\/font><\/div>\n
flag, and “It’s hard to see this as anything but pandering.”\u00a0 As they explain<\/font>:\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n
\n
\n
Mrs. Clinton says her current position grew out of conversations <\/font><\/div>\n
with veterans groups in New York, and there’s no question that <\/font><\/div>\n
many veterans – and, indeed, most Americans – feel deeply <\/font><\/div>\n
offended by the sight of protesters burning the flag. (These days, <\/font><\/div>\n
that sight mainly comes from videos of the Vietnam War era; the <\/font><\/div>\n
senator’s staff did not have any immediate examples of actual New <\/font><\/div>\n
York flag-burnings in the recent past.) But the whole point of the <\/font><\/div>\n
First Amendment is to protect expressions of political opinion that <\/font><\/div>\n
a majority of Americans find disturbing or unacceptable. As a lawyer, <\/font><\/div>\n
the senator presumably already knows that.<\/font><\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n
Maureen Dowd<\/font><\/a> noted: “As Condi [Rice] used weasel words on torture, Hillary <\/font><\/div>\n
took a weaselly position on flag-burning. Trying to convince the conservatives <\/font><\/div>\n
that she’s still got a bit of that Goldwater Girl in her, the woman who would be <\/font><\/div>\n
the first woman president is co-sponsoring a Republican bill making it illegal to <\/font><\/div>\n
desecrate the American flag. The red staters backing this measure are generally <\/font><\/div>\n
the ones who already can’t stand Hillary, so they won’t be fooled. . . The senator <\/font><\/div>\n
doing Clintonian triangulating is just as transparent as the secretary doing <\/font><\/div>\n
Clintonian parsing.”\u00a0 If Ms. Clinton keeps this up, my liberal friends will start to <\/font><\/div>\n
understand, perhaps, why I just don’t trust the woman.<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\n

\n

<\/div>\n

<\/font><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/font><\/font> <\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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