"Weird" Al Yankovic has an excellent song, "Bob," which is not simply a parody of Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues," but also an intelligent exercise in palindromes. The music video (YouTube) for "Bob" is a faithful re-creation of the opening sequence to the 1967 Dylan documentary by D.A. Pennebaker, Don't Look Back.
All this reminded me of a promotional gizmo which came out for the release of the Dylan retrospective on CD last year, which we will now use for our own purposes to summarize Henry Reed's poem, "Chard Whitlow," in ten cue cards or less:
"Chard Whitlow" is itself a parody of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, so the circle of life and satire is now complete.
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Documenting the quest to track down everything written by
(and written about) the poet, translator, critic, and radio
dramatist, Henry Reed.
An obsessive, armchair attempt to assemble a comprehensive bibliography, not just for the work of a poet, but for his entire life. Read "Naming of Parts."
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Reeding Lessons: the Henry Reed research blog |
5.7.2008 |
LOLReed 3
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1331. Palmer, Herbert. "English Poetry: 1938-1950—I." Fortnightly 1017 N.S. (September 1951): 624-628 [627].
Reed is included in the roll of poets who 'made their first appearance, or chief appearance, after 1937....'
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LOLReed, Part the Second
In which we discover the true reason behind the recruits' lack of piling swivels in the second stanza of Reed's poem, "Naming of Parts":
They stolez 'em! Inspired, of course, by the renowned "I Has a Bucket."
They stolez 'em! Inspired, of course, by the renowned "I Has a Bucket."
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1330. Pritchett, V.S., ed. Turnstile One: A Literary Miscellany from the New Statesman and Nation. London: Turnstile Press, 1948. 144.
Collects "Naming of Parts," originally published in the New Statesman and Nation in August, 1942.
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LOLReed, First in a Series
Here you go: a synopsis of Henry Reed's poem, "Sailor's Harbour," translated into lolcat, image macro-format. A lolreed, if you will:
That about sums it up, I think. Also, I would like to point out, I totally had this idea before Chaucer's "I Can Hath Cheezburger?" post, but I waffled (or perhaps ROFL'd, if you prefer).
That about sums it up, I think. Also, I would like to point out, I totally had this idea before Chaucer's "I Can Hath Cheezburger?" post, but I waffled (or perhaps ROFL'd, if you prefer).
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1329. Sinclair, Andrew. Dylan the Bard: A Life of Dylan Thomas. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. 140.
Mentions Rayner Heppenstall bringing Reed and other writers to the Stag's Head pub.
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