Comments on: 2009 Neil Postman Award for Metaphor Nominations http://www.timothy-green.org/blog/2009/03/2009-neil-postman-award-for-metaphor-nominations/ Poetry Editor and Struggling Poet Sun, 25 Jul 2010 23:27:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Sandra Leigh http://www.timothy-green.org/blog/2009/03/2009-neil-postman-award-for-metaphor-nominations/#comment-400 Sandra Leigh Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:18:33 +0000 http://timothy-green.org/blog/?p=617#comment-400 Damn. <i>I thought</i> I knew where to mark my X, until I read once again the poems you had cited. But yeah, "He’s the joker pinned in bicycle spokes vanishing down the street." A picture is worth a thousand words, and this metaphor is picture-perfect. Damn. I thought I knew where to mark my X, until I read once again the poems you had cited.

But yeah,

“He’s the joker pinned in bicycle spokes
vanishing down the street.”

A picture is worth a thousand words, and this metaphor is picture-perfect.

]]> By: Tim http://www.timothy-green.org/blog/2009/03/2009-neil-postman-award-for-metaphor-nominations/#comment-399 Tim Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:42:26 +0000 http://timothy-green.org/blog/?p=617#comment-399 Ooh, you're right, that's a good one, too! Yeah, I don't think the winner has to be an extended metaphor (sorry Alex). Should probably be easier for an extended metaphor, but it's more like a formula, F=MA -- the bigger the metaphor is, the more force, but a sniper's bullet can still be more powerful than a bowling ball in the right hands. Ooh, you’re right, that’s a good one, too!

Yeah, I don’t think the winner has to be an extended metaphor (sorry Alex). Should probably be easier for an extended metaphor, but it’s more like a formula, F=MA — the bigger the metaphor is, the more force, but a sniper’s bullet can still be more powerful than a bowling ball in the right hands.

]]> By: Sandee Lyles http://www.timothy-green.org/blog/2009/03/2009-neil-postman-award-for-metaphor-nominations/#comment-398 Sandee Lyles Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:27:42 +0000 http://timothy-green.org/blog/?p=617#comment-398 ...and all the ones you mentioned plus Saunier's "...Smithfield Ham..." the metaphor like a subtle punch at the very end. …and all the ones you mentioned plus Saunier’s “…Smithfield Ham…” the metaphor like a subtle punch at the very end.

]]> By: Sandee Lyles http://www.timothy-green.org/blog/2009/03/2009-neil-postman-award-for-metaphor-nominations/#comment-397 Sandee Lyles Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:14:16 +0000 http://timothy-green.org/blog/?p=617#comment-397 I just reread the entire Summer issue and skimmed through the Winter which I had recently read and I wouldn't want to be you. But I really like Clarkson's. I don't think the winning poem should have to carry one metaphor the whole way through. The common theme is there. The Ex is a sly deadbeat. :) Love that poem. I just reread the entire Summer issue and skimmed through the Winter which I had recently read and I wouldn’t want to be you. But I really like Clarkson’s. I don’t think the winning poem should have to carry one metaphor the whole way through. The common theme is there. The Ex is a sly deadbeat. :) Love that poem.

]]> By: Alex Escude http://www.timothy-green.org/blog/2009/03/2009-neil-postman-award-for-metaphor-nominations/#comment-396 Alex Escude Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:13:44 +0000 http://timothy-green.org/blog/?p=617#comment-396 Seems to me the winner should be someone who uses an extended metaphor, not merely an instance or a few instances, or lists, but an extended comparison yielding some truth about the human condition. Seems to me the winner should be someone who uses an extended metaphor, not merely an instance or a few instances, or lists, but an extended comparison yielding some truth about the human condition.

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