Alerted by Dougolly's advert for Joanne Kyger I sd to self, but she's
everywehere & started ransacking my old mags, anthologies: surely in
"From the Other Side of the Century" with a healthy chunk of work - no:
then in Eshelman's "Caterpillar Antho" - no: then in "Out of Everywhere"
- no, not even in the excluded forerunners carefully mentioned in the
Postcript. (This is not to knock these anthologies: just to express my
puzzlement at one who seems so regularly to be missed out.) I found 2
poems in the Creeley/Allen edited Penguin "New Writing in the USA" & an
enthusiastic review by Kenneth Irby in Caterpillar 15/16 of 'Places To
Go', 1970. Irby cited, "Whoever you revere will come back tenfold upon
you and lighten the burden carried as those who desire the warmth and
necessity of communication" and commented, "only great CARE can give you
that." Her ragged-edged poems continue to show that care, for the world
as it is & the thinking mind leaping on to perceptions-on-the-fly. Maybe
the scent is lost in the west-coast winds carrying Whalen & Snyder - the
way Bunting is lost for some because all they can see/hear/smell is
Pound. Sad to lose the indiviual for lack of training our noses to
recognise the differences.
Kenneth Irby might also know how it's possible to be in the anthologies
& still not read.
Guys just arrived to fix the pump, gotta go.
Pete.
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