Dinner Party

Dinner Party

 

 

too many words

spoil the plot

 

Hemingway's recipe for brevity

cooked up quite the thematic feast

with savory in-between-the-lines flavor

 

and the invited guests

always leave feeling quite sated.

 

 

 

 

erin-cilberto

1/24/16

Reviews

[Solar]

This poem is a treat! a flavourful appetiser a la 'Hemingway's recipe'

Clever transposition of images in the first two lines [too many words/cooks/plot/pot]

The 'thematic feast' - a reference to Hemingway's Moveable feast? the theme of memoir/place/famous writerpeople? and so even a short poem can have a blend of synergetic ingredients.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for the very kind review, Solar

j.

[andrew mitchell]

A clever piece J. I wonder if he did like parties as he did enjoy just being alone to write. He was also quite worried when he had writer's block! A lovely poem

[jacob erin-cilberto]

yes, even the writers who used so few words had those blocks...

thank you, andrew.read moreyes, even the writers who used so few words had those blocks...

thank you, andrew.

j.

[andrew mitchell]

time permitting is read more lol

[David Scott]

It is not the volume of an experience where satisfaction is found, rather the quality where the soul is satiated...
Crazy guy had a lot figured out didn't he?

[jacob erin-cilberto]

yes, he did. he and his six toed cats.

thank you, David.

j.

[θεά]

'Kill the darlings!'.

Smart use of commensality to render effectiveness to the concept of brevity and incisiveness in writing.

Offers literal satiety.

Look forward to your other works,

Best,
M.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your kind review, M.

j.

[daninstockholm]

haha,, what a feast!! I LOVE Hemmingway,,, a brilliant writer, and his way of using the fewest possible words to say so very much is still mind-blowing..

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, dan, yes, less is more...always enjoyed teaching "hills like white elephants" in my lit classes...with his objective point of view. So few words in that story and we could talk about it for a week.

j.

[Julia Ledo]

I used to read books so quickly my mom thought I ate the pages. But those books were hardly meals. It was only when I met friends in High School who wanted to analyze the pages and the "in-between-the-lines flavors". Really liked this piece

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for sharing that, Julia...really appreciate your words.

j.