Author: 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

••• 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 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

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

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

maybe is time to refresh one’s recollection of the Dream Songs . . . … Continue Reading >“I am, outside. Incredible panic rules.” (Dream Song 46) — John Berryman – via biblioklept.org

Do we simply intend those meanings, thereby willing them into existence? And if the human mind does tend to impose its intentions on a text, can any poetry be truly meaningless? If the idea is pushed far enough, poetry becomes a kind of Rorschach test, perhaps (as Michael Heyward suggests) proving Freud’s claim that it’s impossible to talk nonsense. … Continue Reading >ern malley, redux

“the good lord must have loved the common people, he made so many of them” – Lincoln Drift

He admitted to be one of them, himself.
the prime prima facie evidence that A-L-L-L-L-L-L
men are created equal, that common men
could become president.
… Continue Reading >Socialism is nothing but the Capitalism of the lower classes_sapphic pindaric # 25136

As the incumbent First Seminarian might say, “from 2 Timmy 15, ‘a workman need not be ashamed’”
thereby negging his entire core constituency,
thus ensuring their loyalty …
what a card!
… Continue Reading >workers of the world, unite!

after Nico Vassililakis – etude # 25126 – Polychrome PH(R)ASES OF VISUAL POETRY
i can’t help it – when i get an idea i must follow thru
and Nico is a thought-provoking sort of fellow, is he not? … Continue Reading >after Nico Vassililakis – etude # 25126 – Polychrome PH(R)ASES OF VISUAL POETRY