Familiar Contempts
Alt: American History X Because he knew you, his murdering youcrowded round the American table of familiars. No jihad pin-up, youwere brought low by proximate rage. Abel is your name. Al Qaeda’s...
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Norm, To some degree this is impenetrable; I can extract certain reference points. There're "axis of evil" terrorist buzzwords on the one side, America familiars on the other, & you're positing a...
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Angle Poetry Journal has a great byline that I think about often: "acute, possibly oblique, but never obtuse." Let me say Mike that I am acutely aware of often overshooting the oblique and landing...
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Norm, I knew you understood the basic difficulty of reading this poem. I would caution you to pull back from the obtuse, to experiment with the bleeding obvious, even, but I know you've got your...
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I appreciate you tugging on the ropes Mike when my sonnets start becoming pin-pricks in the sky. I wonder sometimes what powers my inclintion to forge the outer reaches. Is it a psychological...
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