Category: The New Verse Movement
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Any system you contrive without us will be brought down We warned you before and nothing that you built has stood Hear it as you lean over your blueprint Hear it as you roll up your sleeve Hear it once again Any system you contrive without us will be brought down ~ Leonard Cohen
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Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: super-naturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque and the tragic are attractive to the mind, as is discord to blasé ears. Imagine a canvas for a lyrical, magical farce,…
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In this dream. You are a painting by Thomas Hart Benton with luxurious black hair and beautiful pale white skin Asleep. An old hillbilly a mid-west aging Pluto attempts to touch you, looks at you from around the corner in awe and sublime wonder and its obvious and plain to see that he is complete…
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These days Everyone Calls themselves A writer But unless You have spent Most of your life Searching for The perfect words Unless you have lost Hours, years & moments Of sleep, unless you have Stalked, loved every image In your mind and…
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From the wreckage And the great unknown Come I, Cast back unto it Again From beneath, the mire of All good works Which once wrought heaven, You, closer to thyself And…thy sight. The poet Now lost Without words Cast in shadows From the edge of stars “Silence.” __________________ ~ R.M. Engelhardt,…
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How did the most visible poet in America—and a father of the Beats—become nearly forgotten? Vachel Lindsay Photograph by Victor George. To readers who have enjoyed these monthly “Classic Poem” discussions: In order to keep them going while not driving the poetry editor over the edge and at the same time to introduce some…
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Sophie Podolski (8 October 1953 – 29 December 1974) was a Belgian poet and graphic artist. She published only one book during her short lifetime, Le pays où tout est permis (The Country Where Everything Is Permitted), in which the poems were reproduced in her own artistic handwriting. Podolski, studied graphic design at the Académie de…
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Writing is beauty and beauty is writing ~ R.M. Engelhardt
