tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8968803817110676732.post4504072740828160369..comments2024-01-02T02:32:33.534-05:00Comments on The Magpie's Fancy: Five Easy PiecesGigi Thibodeauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15326335927273800932noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8968803817110676732.post-9415497442451844382009-05-28T18:13:42.131-04:002009-05-28T18:13:42.131-04:00Thanks so much! I'm really enjoying Secret Notebo...Thanks so much! I'm really enjoying Secret Notebooks, too. Hope the exercise is helpful.<br />GigiGigi Thibodeauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15326335927273800932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8968803817110676732.post-72600988737140722782009-05-28T16:16:21.845-04:002009-05-28T16:16:21.845-04:00What a great exercise (I'm going to try this while...What a great exercise (I'm going to try this while on the train to NY tomorrow) and a wonderful blog (which I am going to add to my reader right now). Thanks for stopping by Secret Notebooks!Umāhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10680155603317072829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8968803817110676732.post-76961267250780842552009-05-28T15:15:26.136-04:002009-05-28T15:15:26.136-04:00Thanks so much, Gretchen! Let me know how the exe...Thanks so much, Gretchen! Let me know how the exercise works for you.<br />-xoGigi Thibodeauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15326335927273800932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8968803817110676732.post-43482304429299959732009-05-28T15:14:04.312-04:002009-05-28T15:14:04.312-04:00James,
I know what you mean about mixed results. ...James,<br />I know what you mean about mixed results. Some of my students get nowhere with it while others write some of their best work of the semester. I think it's a fun one to try regardless. I love your suggestion about using Heaney's "The Harvest Bow." Great to hear that you studied with Robin, too. She was, and is, a huge inspiration to me.Gigi Thibodeauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15326335927273800932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8968803817110676732.post-45589333417387669422009-05-28T13:56:47.523-04:002009-05-28T13:56:47.523-04:00I'm gonna try it... I adore these photos you have...I'm gonna try it... I adore these photos you have taken! They are so beautiful.<br /><br />my best,<br /><br />ggGretchenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03905664184623062550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8968803817110676732.post-43437390963444628122009-05-28T13:15:24.609-04:002009-05-28T13:15:24.609-04:00I've used this exercise, and I like it. It can hav...I've used this exercise, and I like it. It can have mixed results, though. It seems to be one of those things that works either really well or just not at all. Some students write absolutely brilliant poems with it, but there's no middle ground. As a preliminary to this exercise, I like to read and discuss Seamus Heaney's "The Harvest Bow." The Heaney poem doesn't follow the formula exactly, but it is easy to imagine that it could have started out with this exercise before being revised into what it is now.<br /><br />I studied with Robin Behn at Alabama. What a great teacher she is. And I'd recommend <I>The Practice of Poetry</I> to anybody. I still do exercises out of it, myself, sometimes when I'm stuck.James Owenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07614935078978354375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8968803817110676732.post-35652690486043900052009-05-28T10:24:49.665-04:002009-05-28T10:24:49.665-04:00Well, Todd, as tempted as I am to quote a terrible...Well, Todd, as tempted as I am to quote a terrible song from Jewel here about my hands being my own, I will try not to. Oh, it is difficult to resist. My hands are not what's interesting, I'm afraid--at least not to me. When you have a blog, you can post my hands on it as often as you like.<br />-xoGigi Thibodeauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15326335927273800932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8968803817110676732.post-66415647833277945192009-05-27T21:46:50.839-04:002009-05-27T21:46:50.839-04:00I love this exercise; and the photos are great, to...I love this exercise; and the photos are great, too! So expressive, hands almost disembodied but, at the same time, full with the force and weight of the bodies behind them. With all three pairs of hands, too, each hand seeks the other, whether in knitting where they work together or in sculpting a straw wrapper (?) or in scraping with one nail the corner of another. I love these pictures. But where are your hands, themagpiesfancy?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972901691718858737noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8968803817110676732.post-37776902534613336072009-05-27T16:18:39.499-04:002009-05-27T16:18:39.499-04:00They are some of my favorites, too! Kisses right ...They are some of my favorites, too! Kisses right back at you.Gigi Thibodeauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15326335927273800932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8968803817110676732.post-32298787031643707842009-05-27T15:34:22.439-04:002009-05-27T15:34:22.439-04:00Oh ho ho, those are some of my favorite hands! I'...Oh ho ho, those are some of my favorite hands! I'm so eager to try this exercies that I might just have to sit down and do it myself -- since I can't stand to wait until next semester. Thank you for putting it up.<br />kisses on your head<br />Mmarlowehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03411101474956102690noreply@blogger.com