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December 20, 2010
My favorite of everything I've read of his so far. Which isn't that much, but I'm in a much better mood now.
January 19, 2022
The influence of Lorine Niedecker is present throughout the collection. One poem in particular, "North Shore", may be a tribute to Niedecker - its titles reminiscent of Niedecker's
North Central
; its "pile of gravel" reminiscent of Niedecker's "granite pail"...
My favourite poems from Plight...
Remember my little granite pail?
The handle of it was blue.
Think what's got away in my life -
Was enough to carry me thru.
- Untitled from The Granite Pail: Selected Poems (pg. 7)
At low tide
gulls on
a pile of
gravel
in mist through
mist eye
the estu-
ary.
- North Shore
My favourite poems from Plight...
ULTIMATE FACTS, GENERAL LAWS
There is no outside, no
enclosing wall, no
circumference to us.
The man finishes
his story - how good! how
final! how it puts a
new fact on all thing! He
fills the sky. Lo! On
the other side rises
also a man and he
draws a circle around
the circle we had
just pronounced The circle.
Already our first
man is only a first
speaker - his redress
another circle drawn
beyond the other . . .
And so men do and so
they cancel out and
each becomes the other.
*
No longer
hearing
snow
fall
now that
night's fallen.
*
You sit there
at the bed's
edge and stare
at this man
trying to
sleep and you
say: Sleep, sleep . . .
But my dream
waits outside.
*
THE GRACE
Thank you for
whatever
it is - just
as it is
Ah - if we
could only
leave it at
that - at this.
*
Who counts rain
drops, pine pins
or tears? And
yet each feels
the presence
of each or
how much each
is a part
of, is, all.
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