"'Summer is a communion, don't forget it, / Be a poet to handle it.' So writes John Wieners in his book
Asylum Poems (Angel Hair, 1969). These acute, absorbing poems lend space for the reader's own vexing, present, past, presumed future, of or of not one's own time schedule for the wrath of Decent People. Ah, the Decent People. As Quentin Crisp once said, 'Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.'"
Read the rest of CAConrad's terrific post in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the composition of
Asylum Poems right here.
Book Thug will publish my little book Exit North early next year. 25 poems written (bled out) over the last 11 months.
A review of my book Areas of Fog just went up on Jacket. Thanks to Rob Stanton for the close attention to the work.
"'Summer is a communion, don't forget it, / Be a poet to handle it.' So writes John Wieners in his book Asylum Poems (Angel Hair, 1969). These acute, absorbing poems lend space for the reader's own vexing, present, past, presumed future, of or of not one's own time schedule for the wrath of Decent People. Ah, the Decent People. As Quentin Crisp once said, 'Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.'"
I'll have a sequence of eleven poems published in Visiting Dr. Williams: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of William Carlos Williams (forthcoming, University of Iowa Press, 2010). The sequence includes stuttering, a cactus, dead snails, dead moths, and a bad hangover -- among other things.
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