[New-Poetry] I of the Storm

Tue May 8 13:01:00 EDT 2007

Not so far as I'm concerned. (My Dad used to jokingly chide me as a child
when I used "almost perfect"  which I did nearly almost all of the time.  He
was right to note propensity for unthinking exaggeration. He was right,
too.)

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Oh, no! I hate it when that happens.

Hal, the univerally wrong

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On May 8, 2007, at 11:27 AM, Skip Fox wrote:

As immediately convincing to many,

As fully convincing to some,

As summarily convincing to any,

As foolishly convincing to none.

Your right, Hal.

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Hmm, either something's univerally convincing or it's not.

It's sort of like uniqueness in that way.

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On May 8, 2007, at 11:10 AM, Skip Fox wrote:

Anny's probably right then. What it lacks is the fullness of an entire piece
if not the book.

A certain 20 seconds of Stravinsky might not be as universally convincing as
20 seconds of Bach.

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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,
<javascript:parent.ComposeTo(> 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/>
http://www.lavenderink.org/iofthestorm/

An important event in human history is an excuse for flaccid poetry?

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