3.
Who can like that?
I must admit I dislike
seeing human life
compared to something smaller than itself
making love
compared to a comma
death to periods.*
*Ted Berrigan
Albert Mobilio, writing in the Voice Literary Supplement, observed: “Creeley has shaped his own audience. The much...diluted minimalism, the compression of emotion into verse in which scarcely a syllable is wasted, has decisively marked a generation of poets.”
Birth
Awareness
,
Descent
.
Who can like that?
I must admit I dislike
seeing human life
compared to something smaller than itself
making love
compared to a comma
death to periods.*
*Ted Berrigan
Albert Mobilio, writing in the Voice Literary Supplement, observed: “Creeley has shaped his own audience. The much...diluted minimalism, the compression of emotion into verse in which scarcely a syllable is wasted, has decisively marked a generation of poets.”
Birth
Awareness
,
Descent
.
