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[proximoception]

I never read Ammons but I could read Ammons forever.

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[grashupfer.livejournal.com]

Isn't that always the way.

[jones-casey.livejournal.com]

i'm owed a story about nightspore's coffee with ammons.
i hadn't read ammons since i was a teenager but did again recently.

[toctoc.livejournal.com]

Just happened across what has to be one of the funniest misfilings of Garbage ever--this while hunting up a copy of Sphere , which I like very much, despite being faintly alarmed at the idea that anyone might learn how to be a sexual being from Ammons.

[nightspore.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was just thinking that.

[nightspore.livejournal.com]

You know his one line poem "Middle aged sex"?

"One failure on top of another."

Read or read?

[nightspore.livejournal.com]

Is that first "read" past tense or present? Never before, I mean, or never your practice?

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Reed. Red lodes, noh thyme.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Glued to a trashcan?

I lose the thread in long Ammons but he's just as fascinating line by line.

[toctoc.livejournal.com]

Haha?

[toctoc.livejournal.com]

Glued to a trashcan?

Very nearly. I think I'd have to take a picture; words don't do it justice.


Yes, his sense of what a line is & does is strong & singular (vague sense it's more in how he binds a concept or image within a line rather than anything to do with musicality, whatever that means)--it's one of the things I must like about him, you make me realize.

[proximoception.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I like his etymology-consciousness, but his puns are a not always fortunate byproduct. A lot of humor's generation-bound, I guess?

[toctoc.livejournal.com]

Word.