Poetry

30/8/08 11:24
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I read [livejournal.com profile] communicator's new poem, Lorem Ipsum, yesterday and can't stop thinking about it.

I approach poetry with a combination of impatience, diffidence, and awe. Like acting, the making of poetry is something I barely understand, something I'm aware of being talentless at myself. So when I encounter such a fresh and challenging poem as this one, I'm fascinated.

She's a master wordsmith, but more than that, she's got these huge, history-spanning notions about language and culture, and she's somehow able to weave them together: pain and HTML, Gutenberg and DNA, ink and wine, Rome and Silicon Valley.

Remarkable piece of work. Go. Challenge yourself. Give it a read.
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Meme: post a poem to your journal.

I Confess

I stalked her
In the grocery store: her crown
of snowy braids held in place by a great silver clip,
her erect bearing, radiating tenderness,
the way she placed yogurt and avocados in her basket,
beaming peace like the North Star.
I wanted to ask "What aisle did you find
your serenity in, do you know how
to be married for 50 years, or how to live alone,
excuse me for interrupting, but you seem to possess
some knowledge that makes the earth burn and turn on its axis--"
but we don't request such things from strangers
nowadays. So I said, "I love your hair."

--Alison Luterman

I guess it's lowbrow: I saw it on Tri-Met buses for ages, part of their "Poetry in Motion" series. It was a winner in the Olay Total Effects "Fine Lines Poetry Contest."

I like it anyway.
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