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4      As It Happens



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The big news of this day for me is not the total
eclipse of the moon, nor it is the discovery of 
several new bloggers I will shortly write about;
it is that I have (partly through my persistent
searching through my scattered files and also
partly through a Google "quadrunelle" search
I moments ago did which was aided by the
exixtence of a Google cache I am !!! thankful
for) finally found my Homer poems and my 6
quadrunelles entitled The Dempsey Poplars.
This means I can continue placing my Sets book
up in this journal space.

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Okay, the new bloggers.
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Somewhere recently I came across Tony Tost: his name,
that is; but yesterday when I decided to do a "Springfield
Missouri poets" search/ young Mr. Tost's name showed
again.  This was due to his having been born here in 1975. 
I then did some "Tony Tost" searches, and one of those led
me to his site where I learned that his favorite contemporary
poet is Allen Grossman.  This fact stunned me in several
ways: firstly, I had never heard of Allen Grossman; secondly,
when I did an "Allen Grossman" search/ guess who one of
the results was: Reginald Shepherd; thirdly, I had read a set
of 12 poems by Tony Tost online, and so I had a wee sense
of his "style"; fourthly, when I read Reginald's remarks about
Allen Grossman and the three Allen Grossman poems he
shared, my first impression of Tony Tost was shredded, for 
here is a young poet/musician I yet imagine traveling through
a universe nearly the opposite of that universe the much older
Mr. Grossman seemingly travels through.
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Somewhere amid reading Reginald's "The Mirage We Call 
'Poetry'" and his "On W. S. Merwin's The Lice" and a post at
his partner's site, I read his "Why I Write" and the comments
beneath it.  It was there I was introduced to Mark Granier;
but I did not go to his site until I was nudged to: to read
what he wrote there concerning the major/minor quest and/or
question, about which I am going to write zilch for the nonce. 

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Started posting The Dempsey Poplars and then
because of a minor sidebar event along with my long
unhappiness with usingthe word part of the title of 
the first quadrunelle for the title of the group/ I--but
I think I will let you figure out why--changed the 
group title to: Thatah.  
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Also, since Teasings is being whittled into non-
existence,  I am going to move the poems in it
which remain, alongwith other poems, such as
my "At First to Poets" which is already in this
weblog to a new book I have entitled: Venturings. 



Brian A. J. Salchert