The Afterlife: Letter to Sam HamillYou may think it strange, Sam, that I'm writing ( Read more... )

Hello friends! Three things:

1. RIP Wislawa Szymborska, one of the greatest poets of the 20th/21st century. In my opinion. Which is the right opinion.

2. My friend sent me an email asking for poems about "idolizing someone in a healthy way -- looking up to them and wanting to be like them" or "love poems directed at a male subject." I hate to let ( Read more... )

The Afterlife: Letter to Sam Hamill
Hayden Carruth

(August 3, 1921-September 29, 2008)You may think it strange, Sam, that I'm writing ( Read more... )

The Wheel of Being II ( Read more... )

How many guys are sitting at their kitchen tables
    right now, one-thirty in the morning, this same
time, eating a piece of pie? - that's what I
    wondered.  A big piece of pie, because I'd just
finished reading Ray's last book. ( Not good pie, )

The Fantastic Names of JazzZoot Sims, Joshua Redman ( Read more... )

Faxes to William
Hayden Carruth

ONE

Some poets write blurbs, William,
and some do not. And it is by
a law of nature that the former
envy the latter desperately
though they, the former can do
nothing to release themselves
from the trap, squirm and prevaricate
as they may. They have unmade
their beds and they must schlep in them.

TWO
( The news announces that research now shows )

( on being asked to write a poem against the war in vietnam by hayden carruth )

Poem Catching Up With An IdeaFreedom is not to be proved but is rather a postulate ( Read more... )

I, I, IFirst, the self. Then, the observing self ( Read more... )