[New-Poetry] I of the Storm

[jforjames at aol.com]

Sure, it's talk poetry, as one of the other blurbist's described it, but in this example it's the talk of a guy one tries to sidle away from at the party. Some NY School poets (and Schuyler is an exception) are convinced that their discursive musings and stray thoughts are more interesting than yours or mine. Lavender is mistaken about the quality of my casual musings. 
 
I like gray, gray is my favorite color, 'I would buy myself a gray guitar' as the Counting Crows lyric goes.
Finnegan 
 
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Flaccid or gray? (Wasn’t “gray” the designation of C.S. Lewis for a type of 16th-cent. poetry?) Or a poetry trying to actually capture an everyday language? Or muted? 
 
In a way it reminds me somewhat of James Schuyler and David Antin, resembling several qualities of each. What is interesting is how it rises and falls in energy and intensity over the course of a long piece while never losing its baseline.  An immersion in the real, perhaps.
 
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In a message dated 5/6/2007 2:43:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, anny.ballardini at tin.it writes:
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.
Anny,
The press/webpage you pointed to excerpted him...
http://www.lavenderink.org/iofthestorm/
 
An important event in human history is an excuse for flaccid poetry?
 
Finnegan






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