Hey Ken
what is it with you W poets? Do you know Tom Wayman's work? He has a
whole bunch of (usually quite funny) Wayman poems in the third person
like this. I think I have passed on the ending of 'Life on the Land
Grant Review' here:
Imperceptibly the word spreads outward
to those in Portland, Oregon and Portland, Maine
stuffing their packages of poems
into the 10 p.m. mailbox slots:
"Wayman," the news has it,
"Wayman's editing in Colorado.
All we can do is submit."
Early but to the point...
Doug
On 2-Feb-06, at 11:59 AM, Ken Wolman wrote:
> Career templates? This is not one of them. Nor is this a snap (I'm
> honest, I keep the dates on)--I wrote it while I was on jury duty in
> Paterson, NJ. It's cut through with some sad memories but I'm not
> going
> there right now.
>
> BIOGRAPHY FOR A JOURNAL BACK PAGE
>
> Wolman is unaffiliated, neither teaches nor preaches:
> trained to Academe, has long since cried like Coriolanus
> "I banish you!" at the angel with the flaming sword
> who barred his way.
>
> He has written indifferently: neither to keep
> a drowsy Emperor awake, nor to cure the sucker
> of insomnia, but from the dispassionate vanity
> that comes from obsessing unearthed (unburied) losses.
>
> He has adopted (frighteningly, it often seems to him)
> Berryman as his muse, felt the dead guy's wing,
> the arm of a barroom orator, draped
> round his shoulder like the fog in winter,
> saying "You got yo'sef a gift, whaht boy,
> when you figgah out its point, you come yo'self,
> personal-like, an' tell me!"
>
> He has (most this pains him) vowed, sworn
> and foresworn, first lowered his expectations,
> raised them again as he is raised again and again,
> sung noisily in secret in the suburban dawn,
> slept the peaceful sleep of the unjust
> who redefine Justice.
>
> KTW/1-6-97
>
> -----------------------------
> Ken Wolman
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>
>
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