Sunday, April 11, 2010

Iranianradio.com (you can stream it from iTunes) provides some of the best concentration aid I've found for writing.
On the right kind of day, Bulleit is also good.
So is a clean apartment.

Gerald Stern makes me so happy. I want to write rip-roaring grief poem the way he does in the example I'm about to quote. I want to have the rights to that kind of sorrow.
...I'm kissing Stieglitz

goodbye, my arms are wrapped around him, his photos
are making me cry; we're walking down Fifth Avenue;
we're looking for a pencil; there is a girl
standing against the wall—I'm shaking now

when I think of her; there are two buildings, one
is in blackness, there is a dying poplar;
there is a light on the meadow; there is a man
on a sagging porch. I would have believed in everything.
- Gerald Stern, Kissing Stieglitz Good-Bye

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