My beer mat pronouncements were just based on gut reactions --nothing of the
Robert deep analysis--
David Kennedy --maybe I am a bad reader --it is just that my impression of
Ulli Freer's poetry reminded me of Amy Lowell and her use of adjectives and
patterning -- If we go through the poem --the title "Fragmento" is very
Lowellish --and what struck me was hat the juxatapositing of Amy Lowellish
lines with the "hard-edge --or now" is common to many writers --it
seems --they seemed to have entered into a flora bargain with the past I
would urge you to read Lowell though --her Patterns has a sting in the end.
I just can't see the hard edge in Freer --but perhaps it is in the way he
performs his poetry --and that was my point before, that much of the poetry
seems very tame on the page or online --and it is dependent on the novelty
of new media or drama to add something to it. We had that argument
before --but I thought I would regurgitate again.
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>> angle
jade
>> green
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>>plants glisten (this)
>>lines and veins smudged into binding
>>flora bargain (this)
>>held up
>>lapwing from traffic
>>stanza flutter (this)
>>air conditioned climes (jeez this)
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>>towed tweeds (here)
>>how the policy rusted
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>>dwelled dilettante dimension passion (perhaps)
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>>worsted garment weave (here --brocade --etc )
>>>>roaming rim of river (here)
>>light-headed linger lost grip and collapse
>>amethyst lifeless ornament via pager (token 90's artifact)
>>>>mud may buy lining of a luminous wall (here)
>>>>whilst nervy neighbours crack the clay settled upon
>>hang from flower box plateau
>>an everyman chateau as rules of engagement (here --Edith Wharton?)
>>marketing marriage
>>darkening passage (here)
>>no further ornamentation
>>to the verge (here)
>>overhanging
>>longing
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>> altitude an ambiguous impression
>>bookie bake palpations (yes)
>>>>a panic struck lover's fingerprint (here)
>>estimated ghost spinning
>>meaning once gave
>>another colour to hands
>>clouds to weep to (oh yes!)
>>>>
>>lends a splintered solar system (check ot Amy's solar system)
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>>rows of spruce yellow dry
>>that rattle branches
>>to greater skylark scatters (twittering)
>>mirrage of urban conifers
>>cones & dishes
>>cypresses for cynics
>>transport decay exposing obselesants
>>got the dress sense
>>inversion triads moving in parallels
>>thickening a melodic line (here)
>>attachment plates damage
>>depression on broad facade
>>>>a babble band response
>>over talk bandage
>>remote iron central
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>>blue lobelia
>> palace (more H.D.)
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>>in a layered white
>>flakes
>>a padded appearance
>>curves backing cotton
>>seeking indigo blurs
>>blue abundance
>>blink of an eye blisters certayne drawings (spelling?)
>>a wizen circumference networks
>>experience to hold down emotion
>>>>pulse vehement in pieces bolt enclaves
>>a gentrified fallout limehouse rail links (yes)
>>cough a nonchalant air a choke grief partying
>>understatement dipped in polyurethane foam
>verticals embellishment >>highly yarn
>>enclose a centre block
>> rosettes
>>dyed deep recurring
>>>>to mute
>>wiped smoking glass facilitates
>>lens prison out paced
>>in hoodwink fancy
>>a derivative notion
>>where heart hooked horizontal
>>yet visualise vivacious
>>with anonymous grasping
>>waive or entwine
>>from tempo heard impulsive
>>puffs a fluffed fibre glass insulation insecurity
>>illusion windows
>>to a set light consumption
>>from floor to ceiling assumes
>>views
>>floated deviation bathes
>>a pre-set neck zipper an endurance plus
>>glided with rust in a foil speedway suit
>>beside the titles squeezed between shelving
>>partial expenditure written across
>>bar code
>>a unit of closeness
>>that merely scans yearns
>>locking acquisition in
>>>>of carmine
>>have cybernetic quivers (quivering ..)
>>& comments upon
>>shewn the nature
>>catalogue smells
>>geranium manner
>>of delicacy
>>& extremely
>>proceed to another
>>twilight zero
>>medium modem
>>sugar coat enrich
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>>told which must be done gallstone
>>overcooked lettuce to wipe nerve ends
>>liquid purple agreeably deep stipple (oh yes )
>>upon them
>>>>repel meaning pressed
>>never occurred petal
>>from the leg
>>of table
>>>>in
>>sampler patched triangulations
>>lacquer
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>>bids and blossom heads pine
>>brushed sign
>>maze like spots
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