[New-Poetry] Kooser's beer bottle

[Anny Ballardini]

What a heavy stone thrown into the dull pond
stirring waters and wrinkling airs

that a pine tree is a tree and that all trees are the same and belong to the 
vegetable world
ok, we all agree.
As much as all beer bottles contain beer.

From: "Philip Metres" <pmetres at jcu.edu>
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 2:32 PM


> Kooser's beer bottle is WC Williams', but with more
> lacquer.  It's utterly derivative: the line breaks, the
> sanctity of broken stuff, etc.
>
>
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