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Hey all,
If anyone's reading this or anything else. I just found a pretty good contemporary poet, Kevin Young.
He's got a "bluesy" style that manipulates the use of off beat and off-spa(tial)ce endlines. I would explain my take (I stress that last bit) on his style, but I have to go to bed.
Anywho, here is a one poem from his work "To Repel Ghosts: the remix" a collection of poems that emulates the works and life of late artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (aka SAMO(c)).
ANYBODY SPEAKING WORDS
Nothing can breathe
you back. Not
the long work
of drink, cocktails
at six, beer,
whatever, whisky,
Old Granddad, Crazy-
horse. SPORTS. The dull
sweet white whine taste
of morning. Nor
the eastward walk
past St Mark's
& Auden's marked
house, past
the park, skip
rope of streets no longer
numbers, into the Nix
the Nada--to cop
the coine-sized, -colored
bags. Squats. The poor tarred
streets, corners piled
with boys & beggars.
Smoke smoke. OPERA.
Your faraway father
in his suit
coat of silence. Your mouth
mock-moving on
its own, NOTHING
TO GAIN HERE. Gone,
nothing can stir--
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And so it goes.
Heh,
Sorry chris for not replying. The poet is cool, however these days the only poet I can read for any amount of time is robert frost...go figure...I thought I saw you the other day here in steamboat, almost to the point of calling out your name, but it wasn't you. Hope you're doing well
erik
Hey Erik,
You shouldn't fantasize about old colleagues. That's my only advice. Well, I lied. You should definitely check out this Young dude. He has a particular work that I think you'd like called "Black Maria." Here is a review pulled from Amazon:
"Tough and unlucky in a rainy city or on a Hollywood back lot, poetic detective A.K.A. Jones seeks answers, dodges bullets, and drowns his sorrows as he pursues the alluring and mysterious Delilah Redbones in Young's fourth volume, a book-length sequence of linked short poems grounded in film noir scenarios and in the short, bluesy lines Young has made his signature."
How is Steamboat? And how is Frost treating you?
Do you have any works in utero or born lately? I just went through some of your Closure pieces the other day. It'd be cool to see some stuff if you got it, my email is frigginhugeair at yahoo dot com.
Peace.
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