Maried Byrne writes, addressing Mark Weiss:
<<To react as you and Joseph have seems strange -- as if the poem is
simply what it says: a subject "matter"
and no more. Surely poetry is much more of a live and subtle issue
than that.>>
But it is indeed a simple reversal & Cope knows that we know that
she knows, which is where the putative humor comes from. It just
doesn't work very well. It is exactly because I believe that poetry
is live & subtle that I dismiss this poem, it is neither. Even
invective, if it is effective, imagines the world of that which it
is attacking with some subtlety. The Cope poem fails as a work of
imagination.
jd
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Through the loop
of the rusted padlock
a blade of green
. . .
In the bed
of a rusted war truck
the farmer begins his rice
[John Brandi, from Stone Garland, 1999]
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