Monday, July 27, 2009
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Random
I've been reading Mark Strand's The Weather of Words and enjoying it immensely, which is to say, you might like it, too. Perhaps. I'm not going to presume. However, here's a small sample from the essay, Introduction to the Best American Poetry 1991.
"Hearing poems read, like reading them, is different from other encounters with language. Nothing else we read prepares us for poetry...
"We are better prepared for reading fiction because most of what it tells us is already known. In a poem, most of what is said is neither known or unknown. The world of things or the world of experience that may have given rise to the poem usually dissolves into the background. It is as if the poem were replacing that world as a way of establishing its own primacy, oddly asserting itself over the world."
Anyway, you might like to check it out. I'm mulling over the ideas of known and unknown, replacing the world, primacy...
I bought it used from Amazon and was amused to find that when it arrived it had a little Post-It note stuck to the cover that said "Random."
"Hearing poems read, like reading them, is different from other encounters with language. Nothing else we read prepares us for poetry...
"We are better prepared for reading fiction because most of what it tells us is already known. In a poem, most of what is said is neither known or unknown. The world of things or the world of experience that may have given rise to the poem usually dissolves into the background. It is as if the poem were replacing that world as a way of establishing its own primacy, oddly asserting itself over the world."
Anyway, you might like to check it out. I'm mulling over the ideas of known and unknown, replacing the world, primacy...
I bought it used from Amazon and was amused to find that when it arrived it had a little Post-It note stuck to the cover that said "Random."
Friday, July 24, 2009
Woo-Hoo!
Nancy Botkin has a chapbook, In Waves, coming out from March Street Press sometime this fall! Wonderful!
Monday, July 20, 2009
Friday, July 17, 2009
Late Cretaceous
Say the hummingbird's a homewrecker
Spider-cropped and furious
How else to account for
The missing orbs
The white fields of porches
Heather filling the salvage yard
Spider-cropped and furious
How else to account for
The missing orbs
The white fields of porches
Heather filling the salvage yard
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Thursday, July 09, 2009
Friday, July 03, 2009
The Great American Interchange
The woman in the leopard print dress
Wants you to believe
It's all natural
The American lion much larger
13,000 years ago
(and living)
Long legs parting
The American Serengeti
Great gods of evolution!
(and silicone)
I believe--
In extinction
In the futility of calling God
Good in the particular
(or of calling)
In the wireless clicking of the centipede
Wants you to believe
It's all natural
The American lion much larger
13,000 years ago
(and living)
Long legs parting
The American Serengeti
Great gods of evolution!
(and silicone)
I believe--
In extinction
In the futility of calling God
Good in the particular
(or of calling)
In the wireless clicking of the centipede
Thursday, July 02, 2009
Bicycle Day
April 19, 20-
The neighbors are having at it
And you see in their moment
Your moment
Swallowed and skittered
Could have made scene
Dark matter is thought to make up
Twenty-three percent of the universe
No one sees it
Fixation falls on the brilliant
Noctilucent clouds
Later you wrote
God's leveling the playing field
Tunguska minus
Eighty million trees
The neighbors are having at it
And you see in their moment
Your moment
Swallowed and skittered
Could have made scene
Dark matter is thought to make up
Twenty-three percent of the universe
No one sees it
Fixation falls on the brilliant
Noctilucent clouds
Later you wrote
God's leveling the playing field
Tunguska minus
Eighty million trees
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
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