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Autobio           An Email to Anyone                  


 [ This was to be an email to a certain person,
    but since a technical impasse confronts me
    I'm making changes to it (while presenting 
    the core of it) here.  For some days I have
    been trying to understand a poetics which
    does not mesh with my personality but is
    nonetheless of interest to me.  Therefore,
    the info re the poems of mine in this entry.
    I am curious as to how they, in regards to 
    that poetics, position themselves.     BAJS ]


Anyone,

Read this once or twice and pay special attention to the 
author's remarks on silence and freedom, power structure,
and the vanguard.  Also this sentence: "It is a refusal to admit
that one participates in a language that requires active engagement."
Examples from the works of 3 poets are provided as an aid to
understanding, but I confess I am not yet capable of connecting
the examples given to the poetics proposed because I am not yet
capable of appreciating those examples.  In other words, they are
on a wavelength which is out of my present range.  So it could be
my poems may seem silly by comparison or, at worst, even just
as they are.  Actually, I think some of mine are examples of a
third or fourth or fifth poetics, not that poetics one (or any other)
has to be discrete.

The first link is to a poem quite unlike what will follow it.  My roots
are in quietism.  Silence has long been central to my aesthetic, an
aesthetic I recently called "My Noumenon Aesthetic" in which I 
used a metaphor which feminizes the subconscious.  See my new
Rhodingeedaddee blog.  This poem's "I" can be seen from angles
unrelated to each other:  1) author of poem   2) some other human
3) some animal, such as a bird.  The poem is tightly structured.  It
did not arrive whole, but from what did arrive I knew I had to work
out whatever more of it was to be in the same manner.  It did not
have a title, and it took some time for me to settle on one.  It is not
an easily understood poem--I don't fully understand it--although
there will be readers who think it is too simple and/or too haughty.
See 2007/04/10/sw00306a for "To Those I Am One With"

Three from Rooted Sky 2007
     See 2007/01/23/sw00102rs for "Dark Gazelle"
     See 2007/01/23/sw00103rs for ". . . Breakdown . . ."
     See 2007/01/24/sw00114rs for "What Color . . . Death?"

One from 1976: in 2006
      See 2006/11/22/sw00035usabys for "February: Year-day 47"

One from Postures 2007
      See 2007/02/12/sw00203p for "Four for John Ashbery"

One from Venturings
     See 2007/04/25/sw00348v for "U"

One on concluding page of Justan Tamarind epic
     See 2007/05/10/sw00385jt for "Incantation" (below epic)

Five from June 2007
     See 2007/06/30/sw00526june for "Monday"
     See 2007/06/06/sw00455june for "Therefore,"
     See 2007/06/07/sw00459june for "Down Up"
     See 2007/06/18/sw00494june for "Rant"
     See 2007/06/10/sw00467june for "Raison d"etre"


The alphabet poems in June 2007 are 2-column 9-row lists.

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The Poem Is You


Brian A. J. Salchert