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Reader Feedback on "Amanita Virosa"
Hi Jenny - I wanted to tell you how delightful this read was to me. I've been tinkering with a poem involving Amanita, the Green Fairy, and the blue lotus. My theme is very similar to yours.
I'm glad I stumbled onto your poem.
Dave Ruslander
Author of Voices in My Head
www.sellyourbookhere.com
--dmr
06/20 |
jenny boully is very hott...i should know because i'm from nd and saw her rock first-hand
--cg
06/25 |
okay. it's not as good as her book which is awesome. check it out. out, m
--mel
06/20 |
speechless... this poem breathes longing all to familiar... perhaps, the truest of expressions. well done!
--sc
06/14 |
FINALLLLLLLLLY. Thank you. A poet. How refreshing for the poetry corner. Indeed. You found one, now do it again. And again, yeah like that..oh yeah again. THANKYOU.
--msty
06/12 |
Beautifully done. Lots of wonderous imagery. I think NK who wrote on 05/30 needs to take a yoga class.
--jg
06/05 |
i'm happy to see these suggestions here. a quick read spills forth thoughts of amanita [which i've never sampled],
and the 'virosa', well, i stray toward ayahuasca brews in association [also never sampled]. i shouldn't be sending this, so light on solidity and substance, but, yet, peering into your poem brought me here. there's so, so much, that our "non-ordinary reality" phobic currency misses us!!
hurray!
--js
05/31 |
very good. I don't like the first few lines: I find the imager overly sentimental ("willow trees", "tremulous violins"), and somewhat impenetrable ("insect secrets", "mangoes mating of anemones"). It's tone reminds me of coleridge's 'my prison the lime-bower tree', in its hypothetical voice, sense of longing.. but it isn't quite pulled off. and the word 'espy' sticks out like a sore thumb, but it marks a turn in the poem from the conditional to the explanatory, a turn much for the better, and some of the images are really sublime "glistening sex of splayed summer leaves", "the tattering of all correspondences lost to breath". The humble admission, self-conscious interjection of the narrator, "I know..." is really pulled off well, which is hard to do.
The representation of sexuality is also pretty interesting. The phallic mushroom--poisonous, the penetrating bee-sting, semen wax... At first I wondered if this is a representation of heterosexuality or not: what does "I will part your curtains, open your door so uneasily. " It seems to be an image of penetration but it's spoken by the narrator, who I presume if female, but I dunno. Interesting.
( "unvirgining flowers" reminds me of blake: "o rose thou art sick! / the invisible worm / that flies in the night / in the howling storm / has found out thy bed of crimson joy / and his dark secret love / does thy life destroy" )
--NK
05/30 |
Wow...preeeeeeetty....durrrrrrrghhhhaaaaaaaaah.
--COPI
05/30 |
great poem, I liked it very much, part of it struck me as something I lived myself
--x
05/30 |
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