tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post9154777306815490289..comments2023-10-28T03:14:44.519-07:00Comments on Calhouns Can(n)ons: Your Sunday PoemNewsstandGreghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04099049885765768069noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-52854485063932257542012-08-19T15:04:16.360-07:002012-08-19T15:04:16.360-07:00Thank you again.
I didn’t think someone could top ...Thank you again.<br />I didn’t think someone could top the Third Reich’s Kaiser’s dog’s poetic tale by Wislawa Szymborska. (http://www.ralphmag.org/DZ/dog.html) But here it is. Unique, original but with much the same wise fulfilled old dog self assured flavor and a first canines’ perspective of meadows ponds and springs. Another dog’s self braided full life’s tail. And though not ensnared by an external history, similarly distinct by being a post-mortem autobiography, a ghost dog memoir.<br />The introduction into how the compilation was conceived is a good read in itself, because as twice noted the collection is not about dogs- It is by dogs. and some more ghost dogs whisperings must be bound – there is a section called “Momento Mori”, and there the freely available information ends; http://www.scribd.com/doc/91265994/Unleashed-Poems-by-Writers-Dogs.<br /><br /> “Caesar August” at the tail end was initially a little of a wagging stumper; The dog’s name is after all “Gus”, short for August short for Augustus which is a form of Augustine and relates back to Gus much like Augustinian augments to Augustine, with or without the “E”. Yet “Gus”, the dog’s name also could be short for Gustavo originally Gustaf, like a king of Sweden bearing the name that literally means the “staff of the Geats”. <br /><br />But, we can ignore the Germanic tribe of Geats for this iteration. <br />The convention in “Unleashed” is that each dog’s name appears at the end of their poem. Maxine‘s Dalmatian was named “Caesar” and so the dog signed his full name “Caesar August”- a dead dog’s paw print at the end of his personal epic poem. <br />But I prefer to think that a different convention took place, that of identifying the location of the writing, and that the poem was written in a hotel “Caesar Augustus” on the island of Capri near the Villa Jovis where Augustus Caesar’s successor, Tiberius Caesar, spent his reign. <br />Meanwhile, two years from two thousand years ago; On <b>August 19, 14 CE at 3:00 PM</b>, Augustus Caesar dies, 35 days from his 76th birthday, at Nola in Campania. Tiberius becomes emperor.<br />Alon Perlmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00155776897189144501noreply@blogger.com