Comments on: Ekphrasis 10: Daniel Ribar + Katherine Abbott http://qarrtsiluni.com/2007/04/06/ekphrasis-10-daniel-ribar-katherine-abbott/ online literary magazine Sun, 27 May 2012 00:49:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Rana http://qarrtsiluni.com/2007/04/06/ekphrasis-10-daniel-ribar-katherine-abbott/#comment-1148 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:27:21 +0000 http://qarrtsiluni.wordpress.com/2007/04/06/ekphrasis-10-daniel-ribar-katherine-abbott/#comment-1148 Oh! This is wonderful.

]]> By: Amy http://qarrtsiluni.com/2007/04/06/ekphrasis-10-daniel-ribar-katherine-abbott/#comment-1147 Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:42:01 +0000 http://qarrtsiluni.wordpress.com/2007/04/06/ekphrasis-10-daniel-ribar-katherine-abbott/#comment-1147 “Clapboards pleat” is my favorite line too. Beautiful photo and a beautiful image evoked by the poem.

]]> By: Lucy http://qarrtsiluni.com/2007/04/06/ekphrasis-10-daniel-ribar-katherine-abbott/#comment-1146 Sat, 07 Apr 2007 16:14:09 +0000 http://qarrtsiluni.wordpress.com/2007/04/06/ekphrasis-10-daniel-ribar-katherine-abbott/#comment-1146 I like this very much too; yes it is a very Eastern American voice, I guess, but it also feels very familiar from this part of the world too, a rural, appraising way of looking at structure and materials and their coexistence with and against the forces of nature.

]]> By: Rachel http://qarrtsiluni.com/2007/04/06/ekphrasis-10-daniel-ribar-katherine-abbott/#comment-1145 Fri, 06 Apr 2007 09:05:25 +0000 http://qarrtsiluni.wordpress.com/2007/04/06/ekphrasis-10-daniel-ribar-katherine-abbott/#comment-1145 This is utterly gorgeous. I like the washed-out silver quality of the image, the way I’m not sure what I’m looking at is silver or grey — there’s a magic to that, a kind of blurriness not of the details but of the reality behind them.

And I like the terseness of this poem, which seems to me spoken by a quintessential New England voice. And oh, oh, “the clapboards pleat / under the weight / of hay wagons” — all of those vowels, plus the image of wood pleating like cloth…!

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