tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205011361740478772.post2454732841736009129..comments2024-01-22T00:39:34.849-08:00Comments on melissa shook: Tuesday Poem, Lee Miller, Hitler's Personal Residence, 1945, by Melissa Shookmelissashookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02398008713376655570noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205011361740478772.post-49706431603086075492010-09-16T12:16:41.299-07:002010-09-16T12:16:41.299-07:00exacting and awful and just superb. one doesn'...exacting and awful and just superb. one doesn't come across writing this complex and revealing very often, and its impact is shocking, even tpo one who grew up in that era.jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970302927467991410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205011361740478772.post-42718849431800655772010-09-16T09:21:09.582-07:002010-09-16T09:21:09.582-07:00WOW! WOW!WOW! WOW!Radish Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06534752971317927559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205011361740478772.post-21983017344840189742010-09-14T05:30:29.751-07:002010-09-14T05:30:29.751-07:00thank you for your kind comments...and to Mary for...thank you for your kind comments...and to Mary for finding the link to the poem...<br />I'm much appreciative...much, much...melissashookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02398008713376655570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205011361740478772.post-88097469489124252552010-09-14T02:45:21.684-07:002010-09-14T02:45:21.684-07:00It's a poem that expresses the eternal human c...It's a poem that expresses the eternal human conundrum of what is 'right' Provocative and beautifully written. Many thanks.<br /><br />Greetings from London.A Cuban In Londonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16423293358605007539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205011361740478772.post-86291513534201889742010-09-14T01:16:53.024-07:002010-09-14T01:16:53.024-07:00This poem catches me in the throat, Melissa. I ech...This poem catches me in the throat, Melissa. I echo everything your other readers have already said. The restraint you have shown is powerfully affecting.Claire Beynonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00005365677016923903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205011361740478772.post-39085147510048228452010-09-13T22:12:14.871-07:002010-09-13T22:12:14.871-07:00Oh and here's the link to the photo... http://...Oh and here's the link to the photo... http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/lee-miller-in-hitlers-bathtub/Mary McCallumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07482261103185786111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205011361740478772.post-58911226915499262612010-09-13T22:11:10.125-07:002010-09-13T22:11:10.125-07:00Astonishing poem, Melissa. How to write on this su...Astonishing poem, Melissa. How to write on this subject and to do so convincingly? Well, you have done it. I can feel the bile rising at this image - the sculptured body, the bath, the intimacy, the place, the showers in the place she'd just photographed, her (and our) contamination ...Mary McCallumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07482261103185786111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205011361740478772.post-30028562075647570082010-09-13T19:24:19.822-07:002010-09-13T19:24:19.822-07:00A mind-exploding poem - so many reveberations.
My ...A mind-exploding poem - so many reveberations.<br />My envy geiger-counter went off the top scale.<br />Harveyharveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06635635962581840889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205011361740478772.post-20627156058362847042010-09-13T15:52:39.606-07:002010-09-13T15:52:39.606-07:00contamination is just what I thought...
thank you ...contamination is just what I thought...<br />thank you all...I appreciate your kindness...melissashookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02398008713376655570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205011361740478772.post-26987318143110035332010-09-13T13:45:32.898-07:002010-09-13T13:45:32.898-07:00Lee Miller 'liberates' Hitler's house ...Lee Miller 'liberates' Hitler's house but gets so close to that intimate interior that she risks contamination. You get the troubling aspects of her posing.<br /><br />I wonder whether Cindy Sherman has dressed up like Hitler--or undressed like Hitler.<br /><br />Your understatement is effective.Mimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13039776441665375475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205011361740478772.post-53330122478427571292010-09-13T08:48:10.840-07:002010-09-13T08:48:10.840-07:00I really love the way you get inside the Miller...I really love the way you get inside the Miller's artistic decisions as a photographer here, rather than viewing her as an object of the gaze only. Beautifully done! Her body becomes the catalyst or lightning rod for the incredibly mixed feelings associated with such a moment. And the gesture of bathing is the perfect one -- we're all sullied by what happened. Bravo! I would have liked to see the photo along with the poem though.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8205011361740478772.post-14504373636223854452010-09-13T06:08:26.369-07:002010-09-13T06:08:26.369-07:00Melissa, this is stunning, so eerily beautiful I a...Melissa, this is stunning, so eerily beautiful I almost couldn't read it. Wow.Melissa Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03270919534011711225noreply@blogger.com