POEMS

Hey, all, I DO want to look a bit more deeply at the
way Kasischke  explores self examination and looks at
things such as the act of writing as a form that fails
to tell the truth, even though it works as incantation
and dream; and how she interestingly captures a life
from birth to death. Pages 28 through 42 for example
and onward . . . is a running NARRATIVE almost
of sensations, memories and ghosts everywhere, esp.
of family . . . I keep feeling the transposition in the
poems in which you keep looking at your mother
and know in a minute you will be her, dying after a
life devoted to raising a family, or the one in which she
can't tell the difference between all men, who she
continually "remembers" as boys, due to her own
experiences with her son (see "Boys in Park"). We can
learn something about writing as a "continuous but
shifting dream of the past as the present tense . . ." If
you continue through the book each poem DOES
seem to "answer" the one that came before . . .

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Chris, I assume you will be in class tomorrow? If so,
very first thing we will look at your poems, though, in
the future, try to make it on the days you are up (I know
it is unavoidable at times). I'm talkin' to everyone here
now.

So bring that packet of poems (erasures, word collages;
Chris will explain what all they are) . . . Of course you,
and everyone, will be handing out your packet of 7 -12
poems without our feedback, but oh well . . .