Friday, January 21, 2011

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Huuklyeand Cinquor on Poets Sick to Death of the Muse

Ma chérie, I know
You’re dying to tell us a story,

But before you do, please
Please don’t tell us

It ends adieu.

Moderator’s comments: In all seriousness, could this indecorously punning poem be a veiled allusion to Graves’ Good-bye to All That? If so, it would serve to reinforce the opinion—shared by many seasoned and decorated veterans of the poetry wars—that Cinquor has finally crossed the thin, hazy line separating poetic decency from crass stupidity; he should therefore be declared persona non grata in La República Musa and dispatched to No Man’s Land with no further ado.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Frank Samperi's A Remotis


A Remotis, published by Querencia Books, Seattle, 1979. Cover photograph by Mona Nagai. See Claudia Samperi-Warren at poetfranksamperi to read some of her father’s poems from this beautiful little book edited by John Levy.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

The Three Stages of the World According to Monsanto

Where we find our indefatigable poetic muckraker plowing through the once-fruitful, now seedy lower forty only to find nothing out there standing but the husks of sodbusters stalked to death by a transmogrified jolly Green Giant.

Monday, January 17, 2011

A Spell of Evil

To all of us who have noticed that
Evil is live spelled backwards,

And to those who have not,
May we all live for the day

Evil becomes nothing
So much as its pale

Reflection in the mirror,
Duplicated to the letter,

Save for that most common
Ultimate one which insists

On remaining with its head
Twisted curiously

Looking the other way.



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