NCLR also has an online supplement, in which another of the Rave poems now appears. This one is the first one I wrote--and it was the only for a long time--written during a class of mine at the Antioch Writing Workshops in Yellow Springs a few summers back. "Anniversary Song" is closer than many in the manuscript to the original forms that inspired me. So it was the initial start, the seed that later grew.All five poems were finalists for the James Applewhite Poetry Prize. Click on the Rave tag below for links to more poems from the manuscript.
i clicked on the "link" spot and smoke began emanating from the keyboard. brother, that's a some poetry! very good and interesting. tx.
ReplyDeleteI did find making that manuscript to be freeing. Fire can be a good sign. I hope so!
DeleteA batch of them will be up before too long at "At Length."
What a lucky man that doctor of yours is! I'll go look at the other four poems in a bit.
ReplyDeleteThey'll be in the print journal, not in this--the other four looked more like a unified group, so that's why this one went elsewhere. They are curious things!
DeleteHe has had the good luck of having a great deal of curiosity and also drive to fill his desires. In fact, we have both showed, in our various ways, some degree of obsession. When I was young, I had no idea that drive and desire were not the universal human lot. I was rather disappointed to find that they are not as common as I once assumed.
When I was a kid, I was taught that when we go to bed every night we should be improved in some way over how we were when we woke up that morning, improvement being our own responsibility. I feel terribly guilty if I think I've wasted a day.
DeleteGuilt is very helpful! But completely out of fashion...
DeleteNo, that's not a bit rude! It's definitely pertinent. After all, writers of all sorts want readers, and a work is not completely finished until it is read.
ReplyDeleteI'll probably have to answer this as a post, as it's big for a comment!
Ah, another good question!
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