My cousin, Bob Cox, was one of the 25 fatalities in the 1991 Oakland firestorm. My heart goes out to everyone in LA.

Had Colin & Katie over for dinner last night
Today I keep thinking it's the day AFTER Christmas
because in one way, it is

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Space, Clark Coolidge

First real snow in a year
Too warm to stick
but we'll see about when the sun goes down

Except that with TV if you fall asleep, you are spared the ending, which is dreadful 99% of the time.

Self-Portrait was a particularly vicious parody of conservative poetries, which is why it won all the awards. I don't think of Ashbery as Obscurantist, although you pin that on Jorie easily enough.

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John Ashbery, Three Poems
(I told John this once, he replied
"I thought it sank without a trace")

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Jack Spicer, Book of Magazine Verse
(First heard Robin Blaser read this on Jack's birthday
@ the Rambam in Berkeley, 1966)

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Charles Olson, Maximus Poems
(The Secret? O
was on the spectrum)

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David Bromige, My Poetry

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Robert Creeley, Pieces
underappreciated masterpiece

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William Carlos Williams, Spring & All
(the one poet who is here twice)

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Claudia Rankine, Citizen
still the best book of the 21st century

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Charles Bernstein, Controlling Interests

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#11
Roots and Branches, Robert Duncan

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Lyn Hejinian, My Life

40 years ago today
I took my last drink

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Robert Kelly, Finding the Measure

Opinion | The Disappearance of Literary Men Should Worry Everyone What happens if half the population is no longer involved in reading and writing?

I must be among the disappeared

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/o...

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Jackson Mac Low, Stanzas for Iris Lezak

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Philip Whalen, On Bear's Head

"Never trust a poet who keeps Phil Whalen more than arm's length from their pillow." Clifford Burke circa 1965

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Rae Armantrout, Extremities

Has anyone written on the chapter "Inside" at the end of Robert Gluck's About ED? It's a brilliant performance.

Wrong Gluck got the Nobel.

RIP Jacques Roubaud

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Louis Zukofsky, "A" 22-23

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#4
Robert Grenier, Sentences

On campus or at 1515 Market?

You did

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Barrett Watten, Opera -- Works
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