Starting to look back at the Sonnets of late April early May.
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Low Budget Supermarket Sonnet (revised)
we wish you
crunchy bits
we wish you
rich in fibre
we wish you
non-stick krispie manifestos
beauty is a dispensation
beauty is an 'in' sensation
beauty is assassination
barbecue
shoe lace
inner sole & solace
good buy
(cellulite)
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Today, boys and girls, we’re going to look at ‘Song of the Chinchilla’ by Lisa Jarnot*. I liked the poem immediately – and I’ve given it to ...
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April Fool?
3 comments:
That's great. Changing the layout really gives it more impact. I was going to tell you all about the Crashaw Prize for Poetry (see www.saltpublishing.com for details), but looking over the rubric again I see you have to be resident in UK/Ireland/USA/Australia/New Zealand -- but maybe you could get around that somehow.
If you felt you had enough sonnets, maybe you could submit 'em. I'm probably going to submit my 2nd collection (the 1st being lodged with another publisher who seems in no hurry to make an offer & I've kind of lost faith -- so if my 2nd gets accepted it'll be my first, if you see what I mean).
WCW to Harriet Monroe 22 May 1914: "Certainly I can work for any imaginable period at the work I choose without the encouragement of recognition -- but . . . " (Selected Letters, p.27)
W
PS Seeing Beckett was great & I really liked the Padgett post -- I wanted to buy the book (great Pluto cover image) until I saw the price tag... Why are all the books I want so expensive?
PPS I realise we're not quite on the same page here, but I've just been reading James Campbell's This is the Beat Generation -- I wanted to find out how he treated the famous Six Gallery reading in 1955 that launched Ginsberg's Howl -- What JC does is create a collage from the recollections of the poets themselves & other audience members -- a collage that unfolds in realtime, as it were -- & it's a great way to do it -- somehow in keeping with the spirit of the event.
PS It's a pity we can't get yr sonnets into this:
THE REALITY STREET BOOK OF SONNETS
"With no fewer than 84 contributors, this is a truly groundbreaking anthology. There are plenty of modern sonnet anthologies around; but none that have delved so thoroughly into the myriad ways poets have stretched, deconstructed and re-composed the venerable form, including visual and concrete sonnets. We take as our time frame 1945 to the 21st century, with poets ranging from Edwin Denby (b. 1903) to those currently in their twenties."
Contributors: Robert Adamson, Jeremy Adler, Tim Atkins, Ted Berrigan, Jen Bervin, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Christian Bök, Sean Bonney, Ebbe Borregaard, Jonathan Brannen, Pam Brown, Laynie Browne, Thomas A Clark, Adrian Clarke, John Clarke, Bob Cobbing, Clark Coolidge, Kelvin Corcoran, Beverly Dahlen, Ian Davidson, Edwin Denby, Laurie Duggan, Paul Dutton, Ken Edwards, Michael Farrell, Allen Fisher, Kathleen Fraser, William Fuller, John Gibbens, Harry Gilonis, Giles Goodland, Bill Griffiths, Alan Halsey, Robert Hampson, Jeff Hilson, Anselm Hollo, Lyn Hejinian, Piers Hugill, Peter Jaeger, Elizabeth James, Lisa Jarnot, Keith Jebb, Justin Katko, John Kinsella, Philip Kuhn, Michelle Leggott, Tony Lopez, Chris McCabe, Steve McCaffery, Jackson Mac Low, Richard Makin, Peter Manson, Brian Marley, Bernadette Mayer, Jay Millar, David Miller, Peter Minter, Geraldine Monk, Harryette Mullen, Philip Nikolayev, Alice Notley, Abigail Oborne, Ron Padgett, Bern Porter, Frances Presley, John A Scott, Tom Raworth, Peter Riley, Sophie Robinson, Stephen Rodefer, Maurice Scully, Gavin Selerie, Robert Sheppard, Aaron Shurin, Eléni Sikélianòs, Simon Smith, Mary Ellen Solt, Juliana Spahr, Lawrence Upton, Carol Watts, Ian Wedde, John Welch, Johan de Wit, Geoffrey Young.
http://freespace.virgin.net/
reality.street/
Thought you might be interested. Berrigan, Padgett, Laynie Browne...
W
Hello W.
Thanks - yes, I think the poem works a bit more effectively all round. Certainly it was worth tweaking. I'll go onto the next.
I'm full of admiration for your collections - you're far more sorted out than I am (which I have suspected all along!). I hope things happen.
The best I can do at the moment is to shape bits and pieces and think about chapbooks. Although even that seems terribly presumptuous. I agree, though, with the WCW quote - there has to be a sense of purpose. I rather liked Ron Padgett's modest way of explaining why he writes and publishes so much - he simply likes making books. The 'thinginess' of them.
Just got 'Human Rights' through the door - 'Broken World' came while we were away in France. However, I've decided to save them up for a bit.
The Lisa Jarnot vol. is a joy - partly because I think she's in a happy frame of mind but also the poems are so delightful - and lightful. She makes it all seem so easy - yet clearly it's not. Do you know her work?
Finally - what about Erik Truffaz? I think there's part of me which goes for this kind of 'Euro jazz' - atmospheres & funk & twiddly keyboards (Pat Metheny 'Still Life Talking' & Weather Report being obvious precursors). However, I sense it lacks edge - or balls - or something. And the vocal parts annoy - too obviously a sop to World Music listening. I'm intrigued to know what you think - given you're a hardcore Miles fan. Truffaz's very stance with the trumpet seems a deliberate copy of Miles.
Cheers
The C.
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