[New-Poetry] Re: Wordsalad; poets talking

[Anny Ballardini]

I agree: disorganized!

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:47 PM, David Graham <grahamd at ripon.edu> wrote:

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> On 11/10/08 4:17 PM, "jforjames at aol.com" <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:
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> Gerald Stern: I'm disorganized today. It's good to be disorganized. It
> makes you pay attention.
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> A rather nice bon mot, but that "today" has me stumped.  I'm trying to
> imagine what an "organized" Gerald Stern would look like.  Has he ever been
> organized?  Would we ever want him to be?
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> *Glut*
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> The whole point was getting rid of glut
> for which I starved myself and lived with the heat down
> and only shaved oh every five days and used
> a blunt razor for months so that my cheek
> was not only red but the hair was bent not cut
> for which I then would be ready for the bicycle
> and the broken wrist, for which—oh God—I would be
> ready to climb the steps and fight the boxes
> with only nothing, a pair of shoes, and once
> inside to open the window and let the snow in
> and when the fire was over climb down the icy
> fire escape and drop the last twenty
> feet with notebooks against my chest, bruises
> down one side of my body, fresh blood down the other.
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> From* Save the Last Danc*e by Gerald Stern.  Norton, 2008.
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