[New-Poetry] thanks to Daniel Godston

[Anny Ballardini]

While trying to update my resume (there are still people who ask for your resume) and therefore looking on the net to try to find who and where I am, I bumped into a wonderful surprise, someone liked one of my poems! Anybody here knows Daniel Godston? I would like to thank him, I just cannot believe it. And - blowing my shining horn - the paragraph for me on Jacket:
http://jacketmagazine.com/34/godston-fulcrum.shtml

Anny Ballardini's "Desert" begins with "family tensioned unsolved pasts / heat levels down movement / apprehension builds in / how can a poet take his life? / pain of an hyper-sensitized body in the soul / echoing & tearing the everlasting sorrow." The following stanza is a cascading list propelled by the a strong unifying device, the anaphora "a desert" - "a desert_not to meditate...a desert thick with manipulations_buried under kitsch melodramatic icons...a desert eaten by cockroaches_fetid_filthy / a desert beaten by whores and mercenaries." Those images are both harrowing and imaginative, rigorously crafted. I like how the final stanza begins with "in the midst of carbon monoxide saturated trafficked streets ambulances screaming." Ballardini creates a strong effect by gradually shortening each of the poem's final lines, to take the poem in a different direction than that established by the middle "a desert" stanza - 

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we ask for the rising of Onofri's white lily drops of dew dark protective eyes
in which to get drowned into promise of unremitting love into fluid
freezing silvery-azure mercurial water steeply skidding on
polished stones happy the green majestic imprint
of imposing trees their codex a subliminal
otherworldly alphabet of
Giotto's angels_reference
to cover of Skip Fox's
book received yesterday 





Anny Ballardini
http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html
I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star! 
Friedrich Nietzsche 
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