Robin Purves wrote:
> The idea of exalting or being able to exalt fast "fun" over slow "reckoning"
> (accounting for, and the possibility of retributive justice at its back) is
> cutely ironized and explicitly criticised: "I'm the lazy quick type" -
> phhhhh, good poem, this just to say I like it,
Ditto: and in line 22 is that Creeley who gets run over with the stasis
& moralization thus invoked (or do I have the wrong invocation here?).
Don't have Creeley's "As I sd to my friend John" to hand.
Re: prosody - it strikes me that Joanne Kyger is perhaps godmother to
Mirakove (at least, on the evidence of this poem). For some reason I'm
carrying Caterpillar 15/16 around today & in it Ken Irby reviews Kyger's
"Places to Go" (1970):
"Dextrous humour, wit, is quite literally felt to be vital, necessary
for life. She moves very fast indeed, a speed of the head, not so much
of the viscera..."
Could be about CM, but would have to include the viscera.
Best, Pete.
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