Eric:Blog points:
- Post as much as you can
- Post anything relating to poetry: your poetry, other poetry, a song that sound like poetry, a video of a bowerbird that inspired you to write a poem or that you think could inspire someone else to write a poem, etc.
- Within the text of your post, at the top, put your name, as I have done. Have it bolded and in italics.
- Please put in labels to refer to the work itself (poem, youtube clip, etc) as well as to who wrote it (do: first name last intial, e.g. eric s.)
Over with that now, let's go onto a
link of a few poems by
Bob Hicok. The second or third book of poetry I ever read was his
Animal Soul. I think it was the first book of contemporary poetry I ever read. Anyway, I really loved his poems and have been reading his books since. The poems in
Animal Soul have this discursive, stream-of-consciousness, energetic style that I haven't found in any of his other collections. The poem "Consideration of Song" in the group of poems on the linked-to website has the same verve as those in
Animal Soul. Well that's all for now.
Funny, my friend Jon told me to look at octopus magazine for months, and I kept not getting to it.
ReplyDeleteAnyway---these are so very interesting. I am waiting for the larger world to send animal soul to my tiny library. So, preview.
I am intrigued by the tone and the ideas. I was quoting each line and thought I liked, but it got too long. But especially that little bit about fastening sunset to sunset. and an oculus in the head. and skin made of butterflies. and the whole end of consideration of song. and others.
There is something it is reminding me of that I want to recommend. Will post if ever remember.
oh, and it's Emma. Sorry, just realized how anonymous that was. Hadn't read email with login information yet. Assuming commenting from personal accounts is fine?
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