One night at the Ukranian bar across from St Marks after a poetry reading Gregroy Corso and I argued about who was the better poet, Shelley or Keats. Gregory thought Shelley was better because according to Gregory Shelley represented the Romantic ideal more perfectly than … Read More →
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Pomes Penyeach
I was looking for a little chapbook of Pomes Penyeach by James Joyce that I bought in the 70s at Middle Earth Books in Philly, but I can’t find it. I really have had a hankering for the Pomes. This afternoon dangling from a ladder … Read More →
Sonnet 138: As swallows swoop above the boat begins
As swallows swoop above the boat begins To move although all of us people here Stay still hearing the horn announce we have Let go. The leaves of the rooted bamboo Bend and sway. Mountains go back and further Back into the clouds. The little … Read More →