{"id":3286,"date":"2008-09-29T17:06:28","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T23:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/cher-and-putting-together-a-book-of-poems\/"},"modified":"2023-02-20T08:40:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T15:40:52","slug":"cher-and-putting-together-a-book-of-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/2008\/09\/cher-and-putting-together-a-book-of-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Cher and Putting Together a Book of Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I was reading <em>Ordering the Storm: How to Put Together a Book of Poems <\/em>edited by Susan Grimm, I came across a Cher reference in the essay&#160;&quot;Order &amp; Mojo: Informal Notes on Getting Dressed&quot; by Beckian Fritz Goldberg:<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;the best order for a manuscript is one that suits the personality of the work. If you&#39;re Cher you can wear a sequined Bob Mackie gown. If you&#39;re Willie Nelson you&#39;d better try jeans and T-shirt. So you wouldn&#39;t necessary put your ms. in a tight dress if you are an expansive poet like Larry Levis or Gerald Stern and you wouldn&#39;t wear blue jeans and an old T-shirt if you were, say, Anna Akhmatova.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;in&#160;review:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cherscholar.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef010534e641bd970c-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"FLOAT: left\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chersequins\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341d6c7753ef010534e641bd970c \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef010534e641bd970c-150wi.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px; WIDTH: 150px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/cherscholar.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef010534e657b4970c-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"FLOAT: left\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/cherscholar.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef010534e657ce970c-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"FLOAT: left\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cherjean\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341d6c7753ef010534e657ce970c \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef010534e657ce970c-150wi.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px; WIDTH: 150px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Cher in sequins and Cher in jeans.<\/p>\n<p>&#160; <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cherscholar.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef010534e6430d970c-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"FLOAT: left\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Larrylevis\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341d6c7753ef010534e6430d970c \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef010534e6430d970c-150wi.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px; WIDTH: 150px\" \/><\/a>&#160;<strong>Larry Levis <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(from &quot;Winter Stars&quot;)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I stand out on the street, &amp; do not go in.<br \/>That was our agreement, at my birth.<br \/>And for years I believed<br \/>That what went unsaid between us became empty,<br \/>And pure, like starlight, &amp; that it persisted.<\/p>\n<p>I got it all wrong.<br \/>I wound up believing in words the way a scientist<br \/>Believes in carbon, after death.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, I\u2019m talking to you, father, although<br \/>It is quiet here in the Midwest, where a small wind,<br \/>The size of a wrist, wakes the cold again\u2014<br \/>Which may be all that\u2019s left of you &amp; me.<\/p>\n<p>When I left home at seventeen, I left for good.<\/p>\n<p>That pale haze of stars goes on &amp; on,<br \/>Like laughter that has found a final, silent shape<br \/>On a black sky. It means everything<br \/>It cannot say. Look, it\u2019s empty out there, &amp; cold.<br \/>Cold enough to reconcile<br \/>Even a father, even a son.<\/p>\n<p>&#160; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cherscholar.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef010534df2310970b-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"FLOAT: left\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gerald stern\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341d6c7753ef010534df2310970b \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef010534df2310970b-150wi.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px; WIDTH: 150px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Gerald Stern<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Note: it took me a looong time to find a Gerald Stern poem that didn&#39;t give me a headache. This is the best I could do.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Behaving Like A Jew<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I got there the dead opossum looked like<br \/>an enormous baby sleeping on the road.<br \/>It took me only a few seconds \u2013 just<br \/>seeing him there \u2013 with the hole in his back<br \/>and the wind blowing through his hair<br \/>to get back again into my animal sorrow.<br \/>I am sick of the country, the bloodstained<br \/>bumpers, the stiff hairs sticking out of the grilles,<br \/>the slimy highways, the heavy birds<br \/>refusing to move;<br \/>I am sick of the spirit of Lindbergh over everything,<br \/>that joy in death, that philosophical<br \/>understanding of carnage, that<br \/>concentration on the species.<br \/>&#8212; I am going to be unappeased at the opossum\u2019s death.<br \/>I am going to behave like a Jew<br \/>and touch his face, and stare into his eyes,<br \/>and pull him off the road.<br \/>I am not going to stand in a wet ditch<br \/>with the Toyotas and the Chevies passing over me<br \/>at sixty miles an hour<br \/>and praise the beauty and the balance<br \/>and lose myself in the immortal lifestream<br \/>when my hands are still a little shaky<br \/>from his stiffness and his bulk<br \/>and my eyes are still weak and misty<br \/>from his round belly and his curved fingers<br \/>and his black whiskers and his little dancing feet.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;&#160; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cherscholar.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef010534def8d9970b-popup\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"FLOAT: left\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Akhmatova1924\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341d6c7753ef010534def8d9970b \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cherscholar.com\/cherblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/6a00d8341d6c7753ef010534def8d9970b-150wi.jpg?w=676&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px; WIDTH: 150px\" \/><\/a>&#160; <\/p>\n<p><strong>Anna Akhmatova<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&quot;I Was Born In the Right Time&#8230;&quot;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was born in the right time, in whole,<br \/>Only this time is one that is blessed,<br \/>But great God did not let my poor soul<br \/>Live without deceit on this earth.<\/p>\n<p>And therefore, it&#39;s dark in my house,<br \/>And therefore, all of my friends,<br \/>Like sad birds, in the evening aroused,<br \/>Sing of love, that was never on land.<br \/>&#160;&#160; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was reading Ordering the Storm: How to Put Together a Book of Poems edited by Susan Grimm, I came across a Cher reference in the essay&#160;&quot;Order &amp; Mojo: Informal Notes on Getting Dressed&quot; by Beckian Fritz Goldberg: &#8230;the best order for a manuscript is one that suits the personality of the work. 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