[New-Poetry] Blurb du jour

[JforJames at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/27/2007 7:00:37 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
JforJames at aol.com writes:

 
"I find him prepossessing."
                --Marianne  Moore



I'm going to see him read in about a half-hour...I'll
let you know if he's overly forward like that.
Finnegan




Time's  aged frisson
gets to me more and more, like mice
in pantomime. And then the prompter
throws up his hands in dismay. You were mortal,
so why didn't you say anything? Back to brick basics
for you, my man. We'll see another day
the wave coming up short at water's edge,
which in turn justifies our divagations:
 
--John Ashbery, from "Cliffhanger,"
A Wordly Country, Ecco, 2007
 
--
Very short review of the reading:
He read from the new book. You
could hear a little gasp in his breath
at the end of each phrase, and 
the divagations were justified.
Finnegan
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