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Being the booklog of Glenn Ingersoll, poet, hunger manager, and cloud watcher, in which he returns via hoarded documents to a lot of old books he barely remembers and tries to figure out what they did to him.
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beautiful bitterness
Sam Kashner, reviewing his decision to give up poetry (by now many years old), says:“Poetry was turning out to be a mug’s game after all. Whoever said that – I think it was T.S. Eliot, the most ...
“The most sensitive poets seemed capable of cruelty.”
Talking about a poet whose name has long been familiar to me (and one I often see coupled with big praise) Sam Kashner, a memoirist who claims he has given up poetry, drops in this aside: He is “a w...
“I hate feeling stupid”
Sam Kashner was the first student of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. He studied with Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, William Burroughs, and Grego...
“I thought you were conceited.”
more lines from “A Poem Under the Influence” by David Trinidad… The things I’ve missed / in life, lost in my own head. I don’t know how many times I’ve learned (after the fact) / that peop...
“So many poets”
lines from “A Poem Under the Influence” by David Trinidad:So many poets, so few kind ones … Once, when Ira and I arrived at an Upper West Side party for Wayne Koestenbaum, / the hostess (a Knopf...
gasps, thrills, fleshes
from the diary, 12/9/88: “In one of the textbooks this semester a poem is introduced and the editor gasps when he compares the poem to the version of the incident as it is recorded in the poet’s j...
nouriture
word of the day: nouriturecontext: “The Ballad of a Lost House”, a poem by Leonora Speyer, appearing in Prize Poems, 1913-1929, an anthology edited by Charles A. Warner.The poet is addressing her ...
princox
word of the day: princoxcontext: “Banal Sojourn”, a poem by Wallace Stevens, appearing in Prize Poems, 1913-1929, an anthology edited by Charles A. Warner. “… who can care at the wigs despoili...
pardie
word of the day: pardiecontext: “Banal Sojourn”, a poem by Wallace Stevens, appearing in Prize Poems, 1913-1929, an anthology edited by Charles A. Warner. “Moisture and heat have swollen the gar...
joss
word of the day: josscontext: Our narrator is visiting “friend Chang [in] San Francisco …He lit a joss-stick long and black.Then the proud gray joss in the corner stirred …The great gray joss on...
“AFTERNOON”, by Emma Rossi
AFTERNOONOnce an imaginary friend lied to me.We were drinking tea with skim milk.I don’t know.The opal fog, a harp.I was trying to tell imaginary rightfrom imaginary wrong.It took more than a quote ...
“CRAB”, by Abilash Munnangi
CRABThe dead crab lies stilllimp on the dry sand Allstrength to crawl Gonefrom his hard shellBut he keeps a shapeof old angerCurved along his claws-- Abilash MunnangiAbilash Munnangi was in third grad...
“Deep Eyes”, by Darlyn Avina
Deep EyesEyes are like a hole,a hole with a sparkle that shines.Once you’re cursed with it in your lifethere is no way out of that curse of a hole.It feels so bad that you think your eyesare falling...
What do Ashurbanipal, Hadrian, Queen Elizabeth I, and Mao have in common?
Ashurbanipal was the ancient king in whose library was discovered the Epic of Gilagamesh. The king was literate, a rarity for the time, even for kings, who didn’t need to read, after all, they had s...
pile of reading
My Song Is the Light: the California Poets in the Schools Statewide Anthology 2007, edited by Mary Lee Gowland… We had four poets who teach under CPITS auspices read for Poetry & Pizza last Friday. ...
Sorry for Snake
I found issue #3 of Sorry for Snake, a digest-sized, saddle-staple lit zine, on the poetry shelf at Pegasus. The editors are Sara Mumolo and Jack Morgan, both former members of the Trainwreck Union. M...
underminedetermined
Miekal And and Maria Damon coin some words in a poem, “Inbetween Detritus”, that appears in the second issue of UR*VOX:underminedeterminedtrashisionseclecstaticontolopportunitygenilimnital...
Emily Dickinson’s God
Those -- dying then,Knew where they went --They went to God's Right Hand --That Hand is amputated nowAnd God cannot be found.The abdication of BeliefMakes the Behavior small --Better an ignis fatuusTh...