I experimented with a cut-up intro between Walt Whitman and Robert Bly. Inspired by
, I just switched the two inputs between the two tapes — which produced a fun sono-montage.Then I read Danse Russe by Williams Carlos Williams. You don’t have to be in the woods to be a wild spirit — you can do so in your own bathroom.
Moving on to substack poets, we started with
and his:
A very nice collection and we are now in the “decaying” part of summer as it flies by us.
had some Gutter-Punk-Poetry with his Ballad of the Oakley Hotel. And it true punk-spirit, he didn’t even post it to substack! Well, he did with a note, but it can’t escape me!Then
had this week:
Another nice collection. I think what both he and Rasmus show is that you can publish a nice thematic collection here on substack and it does work well.
Then, I played, from the tapes, a reading of The Lake Isle of Innisfree by Yeats. And why did I play this, because
did a remix (or an imitation poem) of this with:
and I do recommending listening, or reading the Yeats poem first because then I think you’ll be even more taken aback by X.P.’s.
And lastly,
had:
What a piece to end on. I am certainly just waking up to poetry, but just in this one piece you can feel the contrast between modern life and nature. As was also the contrast in X.P.’s poem, as was the decay evident in both the poems from JPM and Rasmus, and even in Henry’s poem, we have a longing for what phone-free life can be in a trip to the beach.
I could go longer, there’s that much great poetry being published here. The digital world can be brutal — the metrics are just not meant for poetry. But I see the comments people leave on your poems and other works and we have a very supportive and thoughtful community here, thank you.
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