Epiphany
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From Restoration Day (poem #1)
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1y ago
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Advent Found Poem (found just now)
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3y ago
     UNEXPECTED LIGHT        courtesy of Dennis Overbye & NY Times (12.8.20) Slight threads of Agnes Martin touch their way across a night sea. The universe is a shade too bright. …more very faint galaxies or star clusters      contributing to the background light. The most likely explanation, he said…     a less exciting possibility… “we messed up     and missed a light source or camera     artifact that we should have figured out.     This is what I worry about the most.” But how dark is dark? …t ..read more
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Synthesis & First Principles (2)
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3y ago
I hang my head low for the previous blog-post.  So dry, so tired, so uninspired.  The cliches do not help get my meaning across. What, what am I trying to say? I'm wrestling with you, American poets - children of Emerson & Whitman.  I'm wrestling with you, American poets - children of Eliot & Pound.  I have a quarrel with both your camps. I'm a wrestler.  I was a Blake School varsity wrestler (with Al Franken, no less). With Emily Dickinson, I declare : I am a child of Awe.  As for poets, I say - we are all children of Awe. - Awe-way, Yaw-way... what's it ..read more
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Synthesis & first principles in poetry
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3y ago
 My "theory" of poetry, how I think about poetry in general or in the abstract, is idiosyncratic and fundamentally improvised.  I don't have a system or a rationale which I can advocate for or teach, as objective or universally relevant.  Nevertheless I feel the urge to organize my thoughts and defend my own practice.  Blogs are exquisitely appropriate for this kind of off-the-cuff table-talk, aren't they?  Sure, Henry. And inevitably I'm bound to repeat myself.  I've been blogging along here for years.  Sorry about that. I think poets are usually drawn to po ..read more
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Continuity of American Poetry
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3y ago
In 1961 cultural historian and Americanist (& specialist in New England Puritanism) Roy Harvey Pearce published a book, The Continuity of American Poetry.  Clearly a labor of love, the work is a meticulous and passionate appraisal, unfolding a kind of American pantheon, from the Puritans to the mid-century moderns - with a special focus on the "long poem" - culminating in a juxtaposition of Eliot and Stevens, as representing two fundamental modes or "basic styles" - the "Adamic" and the "mythic" imagination.  Both modes hinge on Pearce's central insight : that the specifically ..read more
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Uncomfortable Dreaming
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3y ago
Serves me right - after my glib gab here yesterday about dreams, la vida es sueno, etc. - that last night I would wake up at 3 a.m. after a dark & troubling dream that stirred my conscience.  Jealousy, violence, remorse... strange symbolism of the heart. "The heart is desperately corrupt"... says the prophet Jeremiah. Lay awake thinking about the dream for a long time. My comments in yesterday's post about holism in literature, philosophy, theology - and about the Union, and the common good, sought through the civic faith of Gorski's "American covenant" - were undercut a little by ..read more
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New Antidote for Deracination
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3y ago
After a super-natural lightning-&-thunderstorm over Minnesota last night, today it's very clear and quiet here in Minneapolis.  My family is happily up in the woods; I'm staying home to care for my 92-yr-old mother, who's lying a-bed in hospice now, nearby. I used to blog on HG Poetics A LOT.   Now that Ravenna Diagram is a done thing - finished, packed, booked - I'm someways at loose ends.  Feeling the predictable anxiety for the poem's future, its reception (or non-).  And trying to live with this awkward new rhythm of NOT writing the absorbant river-poem every ..read more
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Ides of July
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4y ago
MARBLE TOY On this defunct St. Emperor Henry’s Day the cavaliers of Christ broke down the walls massacred the cityfolk, & found the Holy Sepulchre.  & it was empty. His midget kingdom was a bit of ground 6 ft. x 6.  Beneath Jo’s linen palls that Body slept, 3 nights… then slipped away. So Earth corrals the sun again (at mid-July). Old Henry rotates his lugubrious clay like cenotaph, or marble toy.  Through hells of blinded crowds – mesmeric crown for snobbish mobs, heartless autocracy – deracinated tribes, bent for destruction. So humankind spins round its Book of ..read more
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Liberty Sestina live
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4y ago
Here's me reading "Liberty Sestina" via Youtube : Liberty Sestina ..read more
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