[New-Poetry] Tracking the Elusive SoQ

[Bob Marcacci]

that's nice... i mean it's not not nice... but, well, that's what i said and
i meant it!

using words from his site, i came up with this little found poem or whatever
you want to call it... and i do go there and read him periodically, which
means, perhaps, that i like it enough... i'm not ashamed to admit it... he
makes me laugh sometimes and i'll click pretty avidly for that...

imagine all the lines centered...


a favorite of quietude critics
i sort of avoided this movie
about nothing other
that¹s the right word
the self-flagellation of theory
that fundamental distantiation
among many in the limitless spectrum
the theoritician is transformed into a kind
of celebrity a grand drag queen
and i¹m a poet an unlettered poet
composed only of particulars
as computer programmers like to say
partial and inadequate
 
we must become cyborgs
master narrative
grid of potential information
weird coincidences

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toast

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likewise

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poetry

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of the top new

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classical

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between 1979 & 2004
Silliman wrote a single poem
as enthusiastically as i seem to be


-- 
Bob Marcacci
<http://marcacci.blogspot.com/>

When choosing between two evils, I always like
to pick the one I never tried before.
 - Mae West



> From: TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org>
> Reply-To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp; Views"
> <new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 04:27:22 -0400
> To: "NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp; Views"
> <new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
> Subject: [New-Poetry] Tracking the Elusive SoQ
> 
>  From Blogger Tom Morgan, a genealogy:
> 
> Looking at the early (2003) posts on Silliman's Blog, I pieced together
> a SoQ lineage. The unbroken chain looks something like this: [post
> 1810*] William Wordsworth, Alfred Tennyson, John Greenleaf Whittier,
> Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Cullen Bryant, Sidney Lanier, James
> Russell Lowell, Conrad Aiken, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Lowell, Randall
> Jarrell, James Merrill, Galway Kinnell, James Wright, Robert Pinsky, and
> so forth. Robert Frost, of course, should fit in here somewhere.
> 
> http://inthebecomingundone.blogspot.com/2007/04/origins-of-soq.html
> 
> -- 
> Tad Richards
> http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
> http://opusforty.blogspot.com/
> 
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