I receive a fair measure of criticism, praise too but with upbraided arms I plead for mercy. Everywhere, anywhere — stock piling arsenals. Draw a child’s picture, paint sorrow.
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On January 31, 1969, Time magazine broke the story. Related Stories On J. G. Ballard’s “Evening in the Sun” (from Newsweek, 28 January 1985) Go to Source Author: The Best American Poetry
For four decades death was a stranger to me. I empathised, I offered my shoulder but I did not really know death. Then, this year, death came. An uncle, an aunt, another aunt, a friend. Death came, they left. The clink of tea cups and teary smiles. Cold and waxy sunken cheeks. “No more pain…
Some moonwalk backwards past.Some slow-motion steer.Some upwards beanstalk mast.Some downhill rabbit hole disappear. Some hand in hand.Some distant one-man elastic band.Some three-legged race.Some astronaut-float through space. Some in 14th century rags.Some in 1789 attire.Some in birthday suit bags.Some with hair on fire. Meanwhile as I sit and sip,the rusty wind-up toy cafe box spins.Teacup saucer…
David Barber from LET ME COUNT THE WAYS: 22 TAKES ON THE POETICS OF LISTS [1] AMMONS, A. R. [Broadside]: Shit List; or, Omnium-gatherum of Diversity into Unity [Winston-Salem, North Carolina]: Privately Printed for Stuart Wright, 1979. Price: $300.00 Unbound. Broadside. Measuring 7” x 16”. A bit of faint creasing else fine. Only 30 copies printed; printed as…
“The specific character of despair is that it is unaware of its despair” — Kierkegaard Epigraph to Walker Percy’s novel The Moviegoer –DL Related Stories “The Birth of Tragedy” [Nietzsche’s opening shot] Go to Source Author: The Best American Poetry
