Catherine Daly wrote:
>Yes, it's linked to
>amazon and powell's, a failed "bookstore".
Not Powell's in Portland, Oregon??? (Oh nooooooooooo)
>A pretty good representation of what's available for US$1 at the bargain
>bins of local bookstores, although I didn't buy Clark Coolidge's Kurt
>Cobain poem published by the Figures. It's still sitting in the Tower
>Outlet on Hollywood Blvd.
If I send you $2, will you go back and get it for me? (If I don't
like it, I can send it to Douglas Clark.)
And speaking of books to watch for in such bargain bins or second-
hand bookstores ("preowned literature," I think it's called now by the
PC crowd)--tying in with the "lost and neglected poets" thread--does
anyone but me still lovingly reread _Studies for an Actress and Other
Poems_, the last (posthumously published in 1973) collection by Jean
Garrigue, whose "combination of music and form" was once likened by
Richard Eberhart, to "early Milton" and of whom Marianne Moore once
said that if Garrigue had ever heard of or spoken to the Philistines,
"no imprint of any such meeting" was "left on her."
Here's a taste, from "Grief Was to Go Out, Away," one of the last
poems she wrote before dying in December 1972:
Is it in the poignancy of tests
That we strike fire at the source,
At farewell that we clasp what we know,
And as if it were dying, run to embrace
Our life lying out there, misadventured, abstruse,
In the great wedge of light beamed forth--
Like messengers sallying out
To your "I see! I see!" bearing a scroll
On which the word is almost decipherable.
Cheers,
Candice
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