My friend, I cannot vouch for your intent. Migratory birds arrive & part Do we hold them to their schedule? How full of water are the lakes & rivers In Autumn!
Good writing Resents happy circumstances. Good writers are rarely spared. The demons of this world Their gargoyle faces Are made glad Whenever men of talent hobble.
One ought to have a chat With poets of the land Purported to have Drowned. The wronged souls Whether freezing water is their element.
But for the likes of one We won't see again, Fish, fiends, & friends
"His most successful collection, A Coney Island of the Mind (1958), attracted attention when one of the poems was attacked as blasphemous by a New York congressman, Steven B. Derounian....Despite the controversy it generated—or perhaps, at least in part, because of it—A Coney Island of the Mind was a sensation. It became one of the most successful books of American poetry ever published."
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"I try to develop a vision of the poem as a crystalline structure, to see the points, often images or nouns, in the structure, to see the energies, sometimes prepositional, sometimes sonic, sometimes emotional, that travel between and among these points in the text, and to consider the way the light of our attention might play on and activate the multifarious connections."
