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.
