tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post6459285803487681271..comments2024-03-17T03:42:21.277-05:00Comments on LEARNING CURVE ON THE ECLIPTIC: Robert Pinsky and The Refinery "palace on the water"Twilighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-1150311409279106272015-12-17T00:09:48.924-06:002015-12-17T00:09:48.924-06:00mike (again) ~ Will do! :-)mike (again) ~ Will do! :-)Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-72373865061853996512015-12-16T19:32:28.279-06:002015-12-16T19:32:28.279-06:00I'm impressed with anyjazz' record keeping...I'm impressed with anyjazz' record keeping! Thanks for pestering him...LOL. I did find another photo:<br />https://www.flickr.com/photos/batesline/4276391945/<br /><br />Next time you go through Cyril, check-out "Sia The Camanche Nation Ethno-Ornithological Initiative", a Camanche eagle hatchery:<br />http://www.panoramio.com/photo/56360894mike (again)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-41460855389324191562015-12-16T13:09:13.856-06:002015-12-16T13:09:13.856-06:00mike ~ After digging around and annoying anyjazz,...mike ~ After digging around and annoying anyjazz, asking him to find me the date and place of the photo of The Refinery sculpture, we find it is in a tiny town called Cyril in Oklahoma, and we found it on day last year when we drove out to the Wild Life Refuge beyond Lawton, and took a different road home.<br />Wiki-<br /><i>The town was the site of an oil refinery from the early 1920s until it was closed in 1984. During that time, the refinery was operated by Anderson-Prichard Refining and later Oklahoma Refining. It was the major economic driver for the town, employing 160 people at the time of closure. An unsuccessful attempt was made in the early 1990s to restart part of the refinery. As of 2010, the refinery had been demolished and the site was a Superfund environmental cleanup site. </i><br /><br />Here's the Wiki entry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril,_OklahomaTwilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-29879777779508206242015-12-16T11:26:36.210-06:002015-12-16T11:26:36.210-06:00mike ~ K. Pollitt has it in a nutshell! :-)
Tha...mike ~ K. Pollitt has it in a nutshell! :-)<br /><br />Thanks for the link to his chart - yes, man-with-pen and rather charming approach (via video).<br /><br />I like the videos too, his voice and expressions, and know what you mean about his reminding you of some other well-known face. I see it as not from recent films or TV but a little farther back, maybe 1950s to 70s. Can't put a name to it yet though.<br /><br />The structure in the photograph (taken by anyjazz) is something we happened upon by chance. He thinks it was somewhere in Oklahoma just outsidesome town. I now, having thought more on it, suspect it was in some other state, because I recall saying "Why would they put this here, there's no oil production nearby?" - Quite surprising, it was. It's BIG - spread almost too wide for the camera go get it all in, and was on a slightly raised ridge. I wonder if it was a local metal sculptor's work. I'm sure I'd have looked for information on the plaques, but have no further memory. I kept this photo handy in a file as I knew I'd use it one day. :-)<br /><br />A painting of the poem, done by someone with insight, yes! I'd like to see that!Twilighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14138621610593773784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659850.post-39411203566798278632015-12-16T09:32:34.515-06:002015-12-16T09:32:34.515-06:00"Who else could have written 'The Refiner..."Who else could have written 'The Refinery,' in which ancient animal gods from the collective unconscious wake up and take a train to the factory of language (imagined as a kind of petroleum, pressed out of human history while they were sleeping)?" Katha Pollitt<br />http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/04/20/nnp/19962.html<br /><br />His astrology as a writer [ http://planetwatcher.com/#-921394800 ] has Libra Sun, Gemini Moon, Mercury in Scorpio opposed Uranus, and Venus in Virgo trine a conjunct Jupiter-Saturn in Taurus. Obviously good placements for a man-with-pen.<br /><br />I like his voice and facial expressions...his poetry is probably best heard from his own mouth. He reminds me of some actor from TV or Hollywood...LOL.<br /><br />What is the structure in your reverse ekphrasis photo? Is it a sculpture or a real building, maybe a tavern? And writing of ekphrasis, it would be interesting to see a painting-rendering of Pinsky's "The Refinery".mikenoreply@blogger.com