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Month: June 2020

etude # 25141 – Polychrome Fickle Finger of Fate

Posted onJune 28, 2020 By admindavid

etude # 25141 – Polychrome Fickle Finger of Fate … Continue Reading >etude # 25141 – Polychrome Fickle Finger of Fate

the fog comes on little cat feet – sandburg

Posted onJune 27, 2020 By admindavid

the fog comes on little cat feet – sandburg … Continue Reading >the fog comes on little cat feet – sandburg

your father’s corpse

Posted onJune 26, 2020June 26, 2020 By admindavid

“On ne peut pas porter partout avec soi le cadavre de son pere” … Continue Reading >your father’s corpse

i am trying not to rant about flannery o’connor, but . . .

Posted onJune 26, 2020 By admindavid

i admit this: that i don’t think that FoC is “all that” . . .  … Continue Reading >i am trying not to rant about flannery o’connor, but . . .

‘Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions …’ – Hume

Posted onJune 26, 2020 By admindavid

‘Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions …’ … Continue Reading >‘Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions …’ – Hume

T.E. Hulm, Romantics

Posted onJune 25, 2020July 5, 2020 By admindavid

I object to
the sloppiness which doesn’t consider that a
poem is a poem unless it is moaning or whining
about something or other. … Continue Reading >T.E. Hulm, Romantics

mehercule, per Ezra Pound

Posted onJune 25, 2020 By admindavid

••• you live in our
terrific, untidy, indifferent, empirical age, where not one
single problem is solved and not one single accepted
idea from the poet has any more magic ••• … Continue Reading >mehercule, per Ezra Pound

Dante’s hendecasyllables

Posted onJune 25, 2020June 25, 2020 By admindavid

Dante’s hendeca-syllables
were composed of combinations of rhythm units of
various shapes and sizes and that these pieces
were put together in lines so as to make, roughly,
eleven syllables in all … Continue Reading >Dante’s hendecasyllables

Ezra Pound , before the Cantos

Posted onJune 25, 2020 By admindavid

He baffles us by unfamiliar metres … Continue Reading >Ezra Pound , before the Cantos

“il miglior fabbro”

Posted onJune 25, 2020June 25, 2020 By admindavid

“il miglior fabbro” … Continue Reading >“il miglior fabbro”

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David E. Matthews

David E. Matthews is a failed poet based in Warwick, RI. Read more

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Books of Poetry

  • The Emily Dickinson Bee Towel Catalog
  • pffft! – a Poly-eFFable-Fungible Token Catalog
  • Fulsome Times
  • Max Nix
  • Opus In Progressu
  • American Bughouse / Left with Ludwig
  • Cantos Poesia
  • Traum von dem Gescheitert Dichter
  • beyond:
  • v1
  • Walk With Me
  • Back to Confucius
  • Better Late Than Never—Sez Who?
  • My S-Word: 1972 – 1999
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