Ok, here's the deal, dear colleagues. Dick agreed to read eight poems. By poets unknown to him. Here are the selections I made:
Horace Ode 4.7 by Chris Childers. This is Chris' best work, and given that the average age of the young poets here is about 58, I wanted Dick to see what a kid can do.
Sketches from Route 1 with Ed the Spense, Michael Cantor. Dick knows Spenser and Key West pretty well.
The Duke a-Hunting by Maz. Maz, I need your real name and your location, I hope it's England, because if not, England is skunked. Wouldn't be the first time! .
Chambers by mi Duchessa, Carol Taylor, a poem in Sapphics which I think reaches new power in Carol's most important theme.
Odysseus on Ogygia by Mark Allinson. All I need to say about this is that if I were to recite a poem on O, it wouldn't be Tennyson's.
Prufrock's Thirteen Ways by Mike Juster. What can I say? Hebephrenia is a wonderful way to die.
The Legendary Ghan by Henry Quince. I have been reminded that Mike Moran already discussed this poem at the Lariat, but I want Dick to read it.
I hope this doesn't seem too peremptory on my part. I can't send Dick three hundred poems, nor can I even sift through them myself. Truth is, I sift through thousands of poems on the Sphere, and I had little difficulty deciding what I wanted Dick to read. Your lariat, Tim
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