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A whisper in a dotted cloud
A whisper in a dotted cloud A whisper in a dotted cloud that is over your head as your hat flies off and starts to sail the way of all your wishes to be at the sea near the waves that is damp with salt water air, Cold air on the river front facing Toronto in our California skins though Michigan is the state of our birth, our claim that rings ...
Posted to Poems by Ted Burke on March 25, 2009
"The Age": dreadful, false
Gail Mazur's poems have an easy elegance that can , in their best renderings, bring a number of heady matters into the same conversation without a sign of the stanzas tearing at the seams.Apparent one can read in a previous selection published on Slate, In Another Country , she has the ability to give form to a sense of sensations that you'd ...
Posted to Poems by Ted Burke on March 24, 2009
Sonnet for thirsty dogs
Sonnet for thirsty dogs Dogs their misshapen yelps stream by from car windows on boulevards. drenched in yellow heat, a sunny day, skateboard wheels scrape the cracks of sidewalk slabs, trees and their roots test their boots and sneakers, these rhymes tear the speakers, nothing could be bleaker than to be a dog waiting at the ...
Posted to Poems by Ted Burke on March 21, 2009
Re: Th.OPP: THE LOCKET by Peter Gizzi
don't know if I'd call Peter Gizzi a Language Poet, though he certainly has affinities with that group of writers. He's closer in style and sensibility to George Oppen or James Merrill, two poets who appeal to me because they have an internal monologue that attempts to assess experience through the objects that represent memory but who, unlike a ...
Posted to Poems by Ted Burke on March 20, 2009
Tale of the proscrastinating horn dog
We have an erotic poem here, a distended stretch of rhapsodizing the brings us in the center of a train of thought that is sparked, fired up and colored entirely by a long and obsessive gaze. It's an interesting comparison with TR Hummer's poem in Slate last week, ''Bad Infinity'' , where the reader was likewise situated in a psychology that ...
Posted to Poems by Ted Burke on March 18, 2009
No to St.Patrick
Today is St. Patrick’s Day, and being of Irish descent those who know my last name and aware as well that some consider me a poet, a lover of words used fully, have started to ask me what my plans were. Who’s party are you going to, what Irish Pub will you be drinking at, what Irish poet will you recite at the Open Reading of Irish ...
Posted to Best of the Fray by Ted Burke on March 17, 2009
No to Saint Patrick
This Tues will be March 17, St. Patrick’s Day, and being of Irish descent those who know my last name and aware as well that some consider me a poet, a lover of words used fully, have started to ask me what my plans were. Who’s party are you going to, what Irish Pub will you be drinking at, what Irish poet will you recite at the Open Reading of ...
Posted to Poems by Ted Burke on March 16, 2009
a glorious bummer from TR Hummer
There are those I know, friends and former friends alike, who know it's well within my personality to become a fire-breathing jerk; though I prefer to regard myself as having an even temperament most of my awake time, there are those moments when something gets to me that will not let up. An annoyance, a complaint, the site of something ugly or ...
Posted to Poems by Ted Burke on March 13, 2009
Cecil Taylor in War Time
Cecil Taylor in war time Nothing fits the cadence that quits before a fist can pound hard ivory blocks for truth that is both black and white and a chronic wash of rifled tones flying in formation around the shape of your head as you forget dreams and addresses of friends you need to call, drums lay it down, high hat , ...
Posted to Poems by Ted Burke on March 6, 2009
Re: Should poetry be beautiful?
Beauty is something that is limitlessly subjective, and as much as a protracted discussion about what constitutes a beautiful object can be, I'm inclined to think that poetry ought to be interesting on it's terms, the best effort a poet and his or her craft can create with their talent and personal inclinations. The problem with insisting that a ...
Posted to Poems by Ted Burke on March 6, 2009

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