Comments on: In Denial: A Poem https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/in-denial-a-poem/ Wed, 14 Dec 2022 21:19:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Meg Applebaum https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/in-denial-a-poem/#comment-25401 Wed, 14 Dec 2022 21:19:26 +0000 https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/?post_type=blog_post&p=20289#comment-25401 a funny new-yorkish poem. such a bargain you can’t even get in the next life…
thank you Michelle!

]]> By: Michelle Galanter https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/in-denial-a-poem/#comment-25400 Fri, 18 Nov 2022 13:22:25 +0000 https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/?post_type=blog_post&p=20289#comment-25400 Thank you! The details of this poem were inspired by this very time of year in New York when people seem particularly close and even connected (packed into Fairway buying ingredients) and yet also face the usual divides of the city.

]]> By: Justine Duhr https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/in-denial-a-poem/#comment-25399 Thu, 17 Nov 2022 20:24:55 +0000 https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/?post_type=blog_post&p=20289#comment-25399 I so enjoy this poem, Shelly. The juxtaposition of the specific with the general, the elevator button and smells of dinner cooking with Death, capital “D,” the greatest abstraction there is… really captures the dissonance. Are our lives big or small? I also believe in West End Avenue.

]]> By: Michelle Galanter https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/in-denial-a-poem/#comment-25398 Wed, 16 Nov 2022 15:07:46 +0000 https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/?post_type=blog_post&p=20289#comment-25398 In reply to Robert Levin.

It’s funny what seems to change and what sticks around for awhile. There was an essay from the ‘30’s about West End Ave. and it doesn’t seem like the general timbre has shifted much since then either.

]]> By: Michelle Galanter https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/in-denial-a-poem/#comment-25397 Wed, 16 Nov 2022 15:02:11 +0000 https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/?post_type=blog_post&p=20289#comment-25397 In reply to Michele Beck.

Thank you, Michele. Death seems absurd to me sometimes. Not that this poem is autobiographical, but I do relate to the dissonance.

]]> By: Robert Levin https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/in-denial-a-poem/#comment-25396 Wed, 16 Nov 2022 03:07:51 +0000 https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/?post_type=blog_post&p=20289#comment-25396 What a lovely poem. So refreshing and fun. I loved the image of the three year old boy not reaching the 3rd floor button. Time flies for everyone else but we stay 30 forever. No?

]]> By: Michele Beck https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/in-denial-a-poem/#comment-25395 Mon, 14 Nov 2022 22:11:14 +0000 https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/?post_type=blog_post&p=20289#comment-25395 Wonderful piece, Shelly. I love how you are able to speak of something so unsettling and profound, while making me laugh. Thank you!

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