[New-Poetry] Art of the Small Poem. Chapter 5: The Title

[Skip Fox]

I think the NY School of poets read Stevens well. Esp. Ashbery. An
interesting thesis might even propose that Stevens' titling (esp. the ones
you mentioned) influenced the NY Poets' titles. The NY School just torqued
them with a wilder humor. 

The ones you mentioned are all lushly descriptive (like "Sea Surface" for
the description of the world itself, which also established the bounds of
the poem in one sense) or very "smart" (I'm trying to avoid the term
"intellectual") (as "The Palm" is at mind's end as both world and self, tree
and hand, the actual and fortune's fleshy sign). Beautiful examples.

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Are we allowed to mention Wilshberians? If so, I'll go with Stevens - 
"The Palm at the End of the Mind," "Sea Surface Full of Clouds," "The 
Comedian as the Letter C."

Skip Fox wrote:
>
> Ted Berrigan wrote that titles should be tiny poems. I love those by 
> Berrigan, Ashbery, O'Hara, and Mayer especially, like O'Hara's 
> "Meditations in an Emergency," "In Memory of My Feelings," or 
> Berrigan's "Tambourine Life" or "So Going Around Cities," or Mayer's 
> /The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters/, etc.
>
> Favorite titles anyone?
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