[New-Poetry] I of the Storm

[Anny Ballardini]

thesis & antithesis
fine with me.

I think that Bill Lavender's work in this book should not be excerpted, it is a continuum that ends with Katrina. I think it is important to give this key.
 
  From: JforJames at aol.com 
  Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 8:21 PM


  From Bill Lavender's poem...



  one night when i sit down i do begin to type and the poem

  begins to appear and once it begins in that way usually

  i finish it though might go back and change a word

  here and there or make some minor alteration generally

  try to keep revision to a minimum what i do is try

  not to think about it too much because too much 

  thinking is usually bad overall i've also found that

  a little thinking and a little tinkering can be good

  i don't know that i understand all the ramifications

  of this wavering but as i said i try not

  to think about it too much antin talks

  about poetry and thinking as i recall

  --
  That is New York School poetics for sure, ramblemindedroundaboutunrestrainedreverie.

  Here's a bit from Max Jacob as antithesis...

  Almost the only thing I still like nowadays is this process of scraping away. No more stylistic gewgaws. Tear yourself in half or else take the finished poem and tear that in half. 

  (April 15, 1937, Letters to Marcel Béalu)

  The right poetic image is the one found after long, deep contemplation of the object to be depicted.

  (July 15, 1938, Letters to Marcel Béalu)

  Think your sentences before you write them; otherwise they are like the continuous bumps of bubbly soap that used to be left in bowl the instead of becoming the iridescent globes desired by the pipes of our childhood. A line of poetry is an iridescent soap-bubble. 

  (March 1, 1949, Letters to Marcel Béalu)

  --Max Jacob, Hesitant Fire, selected prose of Max Jacob 
  (translated and edited by Moishe Black and Maria Green, U. of Nebraska Press 1991)

  Finnegan

  In a message dated 5/6/2007 12:25:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time, anny.ballardini at tin.it writes:
    just read:

    Bill Lavender's I of the Storm
    Back-cover blurbs by Andrei Codrescu, Susan M. Schultz and Anselm Hollo. As Schultz says:
    "[...] miss it at your peril."
    ***






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