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Classic baby boomer poetry.

Obscure references to greeks or latin every 2 seconds...

politics, politics, malcolm x,
a passing reference to dante..

more greek, dash of french, anti-americanism, classic "Being anti-war-makes-me- noble" spiel,

more vietnam references

(all boomers who never served or suffered more than a good hang-nail--have written books "imaging" a fellow american committing a war crime or calling someone a "gook."

...It's the boomer equivalent of political-poetical-porno....)

A..
Boehnhofer reference, a thin unexpected bout of jew references....the occasional "f" word thrown in there...
Latin, latin, latin, greek, more political heros......
etc..

I got a migraine,

...but I love poetry so much that I was totally fascinated that this man was digging up dead greeks that I never heard of just to finish a line.

I was thinking, "Damn, poetry IS a sickness. He's got the bug, and he's terminal."

This man beat the snot out of the dictionary,

He dug up all of ancient greece,

He searched his college years for Vietnam references

and did it ALL for One hundred and Sixty Seven pages...just to write...a poem.

And here I was, reading "Bliss Carman" on this site--thinking poetry came from the soul.

This is truly a man suffering for his craft, because I only write when I'm inspired.

Doing this, what's in this book....If words were that much in my blood in that way--I'd stick my head Plath-like in the microwave.