Ghost Buffalo

We are here to witness the creation and to abet it.   -  Annie Dillard

"Poetry has become sterile, but we can still find realism, humor, and intensity in the satiric impulse."   David Yezzi Yezzi, New Criterion Stabbings, poisonings, and beheadings: A Death Guide to Shakespeare:  E-Verse Radio  Poet, publisher, and friend Paul Stevens has passed on.  His last word to me was, Onward.  A great loss for many of us: Fare thee well, Paul Stevens Joining him, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: Jhabvala and the great storyteller and wisdom teacher, Chinua Achabe: Chinua

 

Reading modern literary theory, it often occurs to me we've come to confuse feeling and passion for psychological condition. Great Mother of Poetry, forgive me, I have lost all patience for mediocrity. There are more journals than ever, and every one is filled with mediocrity.  I am regularly asked to blurb mediocre books.  And I write my very own mediocre verse. Mediocrity's saving grace: without it, there is is no excellence. Yea, that's the ticket.    

--- There Appears to Be There appears to be a hole in my shoe says the old to the new.

There is nothing more supernatural than an egg.