tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403396163965026316.post4491361680227377874..comments2024-03-07T09:32:36.387-08:00Comments on THE DISINHIBITOR: Mark LinenthalThe Disinhibitorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10208344358304255984noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403396163965026316.post-48947279267545599622010-09-07T13:04:23.936-07:002010-09-07T13:04:23.936-07:00Yes, Bev utterly gone. Wayyy back then when I work...Yes, Bev utterly gone. Wayyy back then when I worked for and with Mark and Jim and Stan and Buck at the Poetry Center, there was always thinking humor language learning poetry (and historic pictures falling off the Poetry Center wall). Mark and Frances came to see Buck and me in Spain twice--Mark once in the midst of a horrid spring pneumonia read Lorca to us literally by candlelight, Frances always putting things in fine perceiving. Today I gasped to hear of Mark's death. He was always considering, always being honest about that. I remember his inimitable ability to laugh, to see the comedic. What a living. What a beautiful vital knowing. Linda ChownAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403396163965026316.post-47035886722759946962010-09-07T10:19:10.886-07:002010-09-07T10:19:10.886-07:00Thom, thank you for this. Mark was my friend, my ...Thom, thank you for this. Mark was my friend, my boss (when I worked at the Poetry Center) my mentor. We had many an argument about poetry, about politics, about philosophy and all things under the sun. He and Frances (she for her feisty feminism, her devotion to HD, her own illuminating poetry) were my dearest family. Mark introduced me to the Oppens, and for that alone I am blessed, but there was always more. Now utterly gone. Beverly DahlenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403396163965026316.post-10545011904181675982010-09-07T09:41:31.571-07:002010-09-07T09:41:31.571-07:00beautiful. thanks for posting michael.beautiful. thanks for posting michael.John Sakkishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03554535555618862903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6403396163965026316.post-30808641352637778282010-09-07T09:38:36.213-07:002010-09-07T09:38:36.213-07:00Thanks for this, Michael. Mark was one of my first...Thanks for this, Michael. Mark was one of my first and marvelous mentors way back in 1962. He introduced me (us) to Robert Creeley and Theordore Roethke of who he and Jim Schevill produced a movie, In A Dark Time. Later would come both John Logan and George Oppen. I.e., he could be eclectic in his passions and combinations. He had a great wit, as well. The hilarious YouTube tape of limericks captures the edge of his wit and is doubly ironic, particularly with the one about Hitler & Co. - one of Mark's great poems is of when he is forced to parachute down over Germany in WWII - as a Jew it was a multiple anxious moment. <br />Stephen Vincent<br />http://stephenvincent.net/blog/<br /><br /><br />In A Dark Time. Later would come both John Logan and George Oppen. I.e., he could be eclectic in his combinations. He had a great wit, as well. The YouTube tape of limericks is doubly ironic, particularly with the one about Hitler & Co. - one of Mark's great poems is of when he is forced to parachute down over Germany in WWII - as a Jew it was a multiple anxious moment. <br />Stephen Vincent<br />http://stephenvincent.net/blog/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com