[New-Poetry] Lyrical

[David Graham]

> On 05/09/2006, at 6:13 AM, jfq at myuw.net wrote:

>>  take, for example, the magnetic fields, regina spektor,
>> or beck and you'll see a great deal of lyrical sophistication in
>> pop music that one would be hard pressed to find in, say, billy
>> collins or glyn maxwell,

Yeah, there are boatloads of good lyricists out there in any number of pop
genres (some making the kind of cash that makes Billy Collins's paycheck
look downright paltry).

I wonder if the following stanza appeared in, say, *Fence*'s next issue,
whether anyone would think it particularly out of place?

   Is this just vulgar electricity
   Is this the edifying fire
   (it was so pure)
   Does your smile's covert complicity
   Debase as it admires
   (just a flu with a temperature)
   Are you just checking out your mojo
   (oohoo)
   Or am I just fighting off growing old
   (just a high fever)
   All I ever wanted
   Was just to come in from the cold

[Extra credit to anyone who can name the author without Googling.]



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