Joseph M. Gerace
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Jorie Graham
Wikipedia Poem, No. 495 the astreaccask, this … binterty a sky, it, wit, tatight, thers, the hers inge arrand i pled lo the astracask, this … binary a sky, it, wit, airtight, heir, the hers inge arrand i plead lo
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Superficial Missus
Wikipedia Poem, No. 494 aluminum ice pix too big how exotic your shoulders your nose how big too exotic in this picture you’re stock art when is too big or how is exotic your nose in this shot connects to its hips you’re using to click the internet has something to tell you its hip its using your…
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Gesang (Self-Portrait Reclining on Couch)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 493 cunt plush red velvet dune on finger on backs of knee aquatic cunt at night at verisimilitude light at everything from mirror ocean in motion of cunt at night at verisimilitude light at sand spills across desert sand spills across on backs of knee a black back aquatic cunt coral velvet…
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“be frank (if you can’t be frank, be john and kenneth).”
From “The Last Avant-Garde” by David Lehman: [Frank] O’Hara’s ironically self-deprecating tone was much imitated. “I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love,” he wrote. He kiddingly called his own poems “the by-product of exhibitionism” and wrote constantly about his daily life. It was O’Hara who initiated the policy of…
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Denis Johnson (1949-2017)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 491 his lips laid & rising with the warm goodness of theory there they wept rivers over their alphabet that would not congeal despite how grave their wound who inter their gravity
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Motion in Ordered Control
Wikipedia Poem, No. 490 exer xer ekser to metiontrol ined acticulous meticulous meticulous control in order exer exer to mentionss unrefin order to meticulous maker to meticulous unrefin order to meticulous metiontrol in ses make baker to make baker to maker to maker exer to meticulous maker exer exer to make baker exer exer exer…
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Rupture, Trauma (pol-yde-cte-spe-rse-usm-edu-sax)
Wikipedia Poem, No. 488 time children chubby forearms furniture nips at salvation to victims respectful to victims respected performance work masters last intimate it must record tell must recruit acts of paradise given magnum distlllation chosen the record tell must record tell must record tell must record tell now nips at salvations of paradise given…
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George Seferis (1900-1971)
“But to say what you want to say, you must create another language and nourish it for years and years with what you have loved, with what you have lost, with what you will never find again. ” Seferis, as quoted in Mary Ruefle’s “Madness, Rack, and Honey”, p. 191.
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Emily Dickinson; Spring, 1881
“genius is the ignition of affection — not intellect, as is supposed, — the exaltation of devotion, and in proportion to our capacity for that, is our experience of genius.¨ Dickinson, in a letter to Louise and Frances Norcross, early spring 1881
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