Tuesday, March 02, 2004

Poem chaos question mark rent a DVD

Ron Silliman writes about Sunday Morning Anthology, a chapbook-size collection of works by nine Somerville Mass. poets. He writes "The only thing I see at all problematic about this anthology is that I don’t think it will be seen/read by nearly enough people." Here's an excerpt he includes written by Tim Peterson:

Lawn chairs yawn mouth awning

hair on neck in prayer hands

bandaged ample breast pairs in flown

deck bench stepping stone declension

tensed on step in step represent shipwreck

calling parts dungarees under hands

knees face side of a skin rib filial

injury dingy basement implement tool

swinger pen penis to write and under plans

wrinkled table in full bloom hardy

or wry mouth damaged lock shorn then


There's a reason why regular folks don't buy poetry anymore. It's called incomprehension.

*line-spacing change to excerpt per Ron's request (see comments.)
**italics removed from excerpt per Tim's request (see comments.)

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