tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412995.post112172634036626263..comments2023-10-20T02:14:46.360-07:00Comments on GENEVA CONVENTION ARCHIVES: Poem for You Know Who You Are (or "Freestylin' w/Joe Massey")Anthony Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15344532091414013818noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412995.post-1122139724348780992005-07-23T10:28:00.000-07:002005-07-23T10:28:00.000-07:00Please recognize that my comments are in response ...Please recognize that my comments are in response to numerous comments Tony made on *my blog* and in his in response to my blog, and most offensely & defamatorily, all culturally & ethnically loaded comments: assumptions & presumptions about me & my work based upon what I represent to him as a Chicana poet. Beginning with this in a post from early June <BR/><BR/>"There is a period style (or maybeLorna Dee Cervanteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01239920845079483543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412995.post-1121902073165122502005-07-20T16:27:00.000-07:002005-07-20T16:27:00.000-07:00Eduardo,I've always allowed anonymous comments, an...Eduardo,<BR/><BR/>I've always allowed anonymous comments, and unless things get out of hand, I'd rather just continue to allow them.<BR/><BR/>In the case of the first anonymous comment, I know the poster's identity. While it may seem mean-spirited, this poster is simply offering my detractor the same "service" she offered me. Tit for tat, I suppose, or that's how I read it.<BR/><BR/>In the caseAnthony Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15344532091414013818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412995.post-1121898021975554762005-07-20T15:20:00.000-07:002005-07-20T15:20:00.000-07:00Tony,I would encourage you not to allow anonymous ...Tony,<BR/><BR/>I would encourage you not to allow anonymous comments on this specific post. People who make stupid statements while hiding behind a mask of anonymity are pathetic.Eduardo C. Corralhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04558862283491222298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412995.post-1121893012752870962005-07-20T13:56:00.000-07:002005-07-20T13:56:00.000-07:00The 5K a pop for workshops line, that just kills m...The 5K a pop for workshops line, that just kills me. Why would anyone pay to get "workshopped" by a poet whose last book came out 15 years ago, from a non-existent press? And anyone who talks like an issue of Poets & Writers should not be allowed within 500 miles of anyone who wants to write poems. Wow.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412995.post-1121889812778693032005-07-20T13:03:00.000-07:002005-07-20T13:03:00.000-07:00"I ain't no goddamn son of a bitch. You'd better t..."I ain't no goddamn son of a bitch. You'd better think about it, baby."Anthony Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15344532091414013818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412995.post-1121889636576865672005-07-20T13:00:00.000-07:002005-07-20T13:00:00.000-07:00Lorna's comments are offensive. Especially comment...Lorna's comments are offensive. Especially comments like "I want my raza (that's race as in human race, there is only one) to shine if they're going to be representing instead of presenting like a scarlet butt baboon" and "the only reason I take the time is your heritage." <BR/>Tony's poems are wonderful and just because they don't conform to your warped ideas of a "poetics" doesn't mean that Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412995.post-1121852833778917702005-07-20T02:47:00.000-07:002005-07-20T02:47:00.000-07:00Professor Lorna,Thank you.If you don't like, fine....Professor Lorna,<BR/><BR/>Thank you.<BR/><BR/>If you don't like, fine. That's cool with me. I don't seek your approval.<BR/><BR/>And I don't want to be sought. <BR/><BR/>I may be the worst poet in the world, Chicano or no. <BR/><BR/>And so...<BR/><BR/>And so?<BR/><BR/>Okay, my poems suck.<BR/><BR/>I don't like your poems either--but hey, I didn't ask for your approval, as I've said.<BR/><BR/>Anthony Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15344532091414013818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412995.post-1121809322416416552005-07-19T14:42:00.000-07:002005-07-19T14:42:00.000-07:00& we almost did ----for Joe Massey (maybe)too much...& we almost did <BR/><BR/>----for Joe Massey (maybe)<BR/><BR/><BR/>too much desecrated the kitchen<BR/>floor & haunted bars to show off<BR/><BR/>one to the other your hand pushed<BR/>out toward the camera making love<BR/>with your shirt still on the branches<BR/>at the window bare because of winter<BR/><BR/>& its quiet light by spring we’d<BR/>had enough but not enough to drink<BR/>because the Lorna Dee Cervanteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01239920845079483543noreply@blogger.com