[New-Poetry] Re: A new Anthology by our List Owner

[Anny Ballardini]

I could have sworn that you were in all those boring anthologies...
:-)


On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:50 PM, David Graham <grahamd at ripon.edu> wrote:

> Congratulations, Jim.  I love this series of books from U Iowa, and not
> just because I'm in three of them.  (Thom Tammaro and Sheila Coghill edited
> the anthologies on Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson.)
> Do you know if others are in the works?  Eliot?  Pound?  Visiting Miss
> Moore?
>
> I also would love to see a table of contents.  (Beats me why all publishers
> don't list such on their web sites.)
>
> I am
> among the least Stevensian poets this side of Charles Bukowski, but I've always loved his work.  Here's the closest thing I have to a poem in tribute to Wallace, a spin-off from my all-time favorite of his, and among my favorite lyrics of all time.
>
> *A Mind Of Winter*
>
> I recognize the pose:  casual cool,
> one arm spread along the top slat
> of the bench, legs wide in disdain,
> a gaze aiming at unreadable.
> For two days he's sprawled at ease
> near the student union, making it clear
> he's not moving come class or final.
> The season's second snowfall
> glazes his face and limbs.
> The fact that he's sculpted in snow
> explains much of his immobility
> but not all.  For he's so much the ghost
> of the unlistener, that back-row child
> who passes through wisdom
> as through the weather, elemental
> and unaltered, that I know
> I've seen him sprawled over half
> my life.  Not to mention that
> I've been that boy, chilling myself
> from inside out with the ice
> of unknowing.  So I cannot pass
> without a kind thought tossed
> like a whiff of cool wind
> in his direction.  His eyeless gaze
> cannot blink away new snow
> building, nor can my squint
> focus his form.  By tomorrow
> both our heads will have been
> knocked off and reasserted
> more times than we can tell.
>
> --fr. *Stutter Monk*.  Flume Press, 2000.
>
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>
> On Jun 9, 2009, at 12:30 PM, jforjames at aol.com wrote:
>
> Dennis Barone, who may still be signed on to this list, deserves most of
> the credit.
> It should be 'edited Dennis Barone with assistance by James Finnegan'.
> Paticularly he took the lead on following up for all the permissions/rights
> to republish...that was a real chore.
>
> Note Iowa has other anthologies along this line...
> Here's _Visiting Frost_
> http://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/2005-fall/cogvisfro.htm
> and _Visiting Emily_
> http://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/pre-2002/cogvisemi.htm
> Note: Thom Tammaro was on this at one point...or maybe that was CAP-L?
>
> Finnegan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org>
> Sent: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 1:05 pm
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] A new Anthology by our List Owner
>
> This is very cool. I had missed it before. Congratulations, indeed!
>
> Anny Ballardini wrote:
> > Folks!
> > Poets!
> >
> > Did you visit this link? Hal, James, Mark,
> > Amy, Tad, Everybody, where are you? I think it deserves a comment, > felt
> congratulations to the Editors!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > http://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/2009-fall/barone.htm
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -- > Anny Ballardini
> > http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
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> > I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a > dancing
> star!
> > Friedrich Nietzsche
> >
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Anny Ballardini
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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
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