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* a little bit on process
Just finished a batch of 200+ poems and am sorting through them with the help of my editor/first reader/manager/lady in order to see if there’s a book in there. My process is simply to fill up a journal (those sleek/cliche Moleskines) and leave that journal alone for at least a year. When I come back […]
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* Louise Bogan, an update & the friday influence
Roman Fountain – Louise Bogan Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air, Reach to its rest, and fall. Bronze of the blackest shade, An element man-made, Shaping upright the bare Clear gouts of water in air. O, as with arm and hammer, Still it is good […]
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* Two poems up at cur.ren.cy!!!
Check out my poems “Bombs” and “Morning Communion” at cur.ren.cy: https://sites.google.com/a/currencylit.com/cur-ren-cy/ This online journal is run by the same good people as Right Hand Pointing. Enjoy!!! J
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* John Ashbery, the pit & the friday influence
Uptick - John Ashbery We were sitting there, and I made a joke about how it doesn’t dovetail: time, one minute running out faster than the one in front it catches up to. That way, I said, there can be no waste. Waste is virtually eliminated. To come back for a few hours to […]
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* Akhmatova & some news on the friday influence
Willow - Anna Akhmatova “And a worn-out cluster of trees.” — Pushkin In the cool nursery of the young century, I was born to a patterned tranquility, The voice of man was not sweet to me, But the wind’s voice I could understand. I loved burdocks and nettles, But the silver willow best […]
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divagations, & the friday influence
Elms – C.K. Williams All morning the tree men have been taking down the stricken elms skirting the broad sidewalks. The pitiless electric chain saws whine tirelessly up and down their piercing, operatic scales and the diesel choppers in the street shredding the debris chug feverishly, incessantly, packing truckload after truckload with the feathery, homogenized, […]
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* translation 3/3 on the friday influence
(from Proverbios y Cantares - Antonio Machado) * XXXII. Oh faith of meditation! Oh faith after deep thought! When a heart returns to earth, the human cup overflows, and the sea swells. *** This week, The Friday Influence presents the work of the great Spanish poet Antonio Machado. I first ran across the above poem […]
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* Goethe
(Roman Elegy V - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) * I find myself on Classic soil; the past and present speak to me. As I was told to, I leaf through the works of Ancients and find joy. Through the nights, love keeps me busy at other things; even though I am half-educated, I am twice […]
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* translation 2/3 on the friday influence
(from Greguerias - Ramon Gomez de la Serna) * Curious about the earth, the sky keeps opening and closing the clouds. * The hour differs throughout the stars. In some it is yesterday, in others today, and in others centuries have passed. * He had a keyring so dusty, he looked like a fisherman of […]
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* translation 1/3 on the friday influence
(from The Book of Questions - Pablo Neruda) * IV. How many churches in Heaven? Why does the shark not attack the indifferent sirens? Does smoke chat with the clouds? Is it true that all hopes should be watered with dew? XXIV. Is 4 the same 4 for all? […]
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