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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I was explaining to a
would-be anthologist who asked, just how I had selected works for my anthology <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In the American Tree, </i>how I had set up a
series of rules &#8211; writers had to have appeared in two or more contexts from a
specific set of journals &amp; book publishers &#8211; that gave me a core list from
which I subtracted those who already had firmly established literary identities
(such as Bill Berkson &amp; Larry Eigner), those who were not primarily working
in the United States (</span><st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">Steve
 McCaffery</span></st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">, </span><st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">Tom Raworth</span></st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">) &amp; those who had either apparently stopped
writing or were principally involved in another art form (Curtis Faville, </span><st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">David Gitin</span></st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">, Abigail Child). I had noted that while all of the
exclusions were regrettable &amp; some had proven controversial (as in fact
were some of the inclusions), what I found myself most often regretting from
the entire process was that I had not gone ahead and at least include Curtis
Faville&#8217;s great poem of the 1970s, &#8220;Aubade.&#8221; It goes like this:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">grapefruit</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> rinds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">mixed</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> nicely with<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">cinnamon</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">aluminum</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> pop-top<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">cans</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">, a dozen;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">oatmeal</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> flesh numb<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">but</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> horny, errands<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">that</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> keep us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">apart</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">; salty<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">shoulder</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">, the <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">grovel</span></i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> of steamrollers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">rolling</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> sunlight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">over</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> the asphalt or<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">a</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> yellow <span class="SpellE">streetcleaner</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">with</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> giant brushes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">that</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> rinse; the nightlight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">forgotten</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> until </span><st1:time hour="12" minute="0"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">noon</span></st1:time><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">swapping</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> curtains<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">for</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> bathrobes or a <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">&#8220;<span class="GramE">blush</span>&#8221;-towel, blue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">yellow</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> or <span class="SpellE">seagreen</span>;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">delicate</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> crush<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">of</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> cellophane or packed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="SpellE"><span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">lunchbags</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">; cold<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">gold</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> ring, the first<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">thing</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">, reaching over the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">bed</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">, the clock full<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">of</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> water or dripping<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">with</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> darkness; the grass<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">knifing</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> up through<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">leaves</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> face-down, birds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">looking</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> worried but<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">proud</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">, a little frenetic,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">bobbing</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">; first<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">swish</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> of vehicles over<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">the</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> breathing roads,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">coughing</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> motors, scattering<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">at</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> crossroads; wall<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">of</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> white tiles or<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">pills</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> dissolving on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">the</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> tongue; wobble of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">dripping</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> milk cartons,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">soft</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> torn webs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">behind</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> the eyes and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">brassiness</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> like a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">bit</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> behind the tongue;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">shuddering</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> whistle<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">blowing</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> the top<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">off</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> a factory of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">grammar</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> school; fatigue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">like</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> planned <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">obsolescence</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> in the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">marrow</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> &#8211; built-in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">bone-dry</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> or allergic<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">to</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> the clouds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">in</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> the sky; iris wide-eyed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">but</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> coy in its bed;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">sap</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> returning like air<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">to</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> a butterfly&#8217;s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">wings</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">, slowly opening<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">and</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> closing like first<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">breath</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">; tropical vine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">drooping</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> like an eyelid<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">under</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> the eaves, one<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">side</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> of the house<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">still</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> asleep in the shade,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">bricks</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> slanting<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">out</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> of the ground<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">wet</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> from brittle snails;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">the</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> doorknob befuddling<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">in</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> its simplicity,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">the</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> door a blank; moths<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">flapping</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> like bats<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">from</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> mouths held open<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">with</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> toothpicks; un-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">foldable</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> newspaper with<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">totalitarian</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> BOLDFACE; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">chainsaws</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> bawling<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">over</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> the bark;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">yawns</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> steep as mines<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">or</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> wells with<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">shaggy</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> moss; the stranded<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">frog</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> splashed in the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">street</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">, cats<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">sniffing</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> it; unplugged a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">cork</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> in the ear<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">floats</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> away, a fly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">stuck</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> to the wall, drugged;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">soap</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> streams<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">and</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> squeaks, a dull<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">razor</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> in the trash;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">white</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> foam cool<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">and</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> stiff, hushed-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">up</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">; combing the sparks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">from</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> my hair, that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">bright</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> blue arc<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">beside</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> the switch in the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">hallway</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">; and then<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">a</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> record, something<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">spiny</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> like Scarlatti<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">or</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> heavy and driving like<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">the</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Stones</i>; that lush<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">static</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> off the diamond<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">scratching</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> plastic;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">paint</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> chipped, blistered<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">peeling</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> or powdered,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">white</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> siding <span class="SpellE">shutterless</span>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">roomfuls</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> of night, eating<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">it</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> up; putting out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">flames</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> right from the fore-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">head</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">, a cock, crowing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">from</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> God knows where, dirty<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">and</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> well-laid<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">scratching</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> up fire<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">from</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> hard earth; probably<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">not</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> possible, I didn&#8217;t<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">go</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> to sleep, sat up all<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">night</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> and just<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">to</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> say it a little differently,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">washed-out</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> and touchy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">a</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> whole day ahead<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;">of</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt;"> me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Twenty-eight years after this
poem first floored me when it led off <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ready,
</i>a mimeo &amp; staple volume published by Adventures in Poetry, retyping it
simply for the pleasure of putting her leaves me positively dancing with
excitement. Of course, I am obviously the right reader for this poem: its
aesthetic of plenitude, of description for the sake of detail, plays right into
the poetry I was writing then. <span class="GramE">As it still plays into my own
aesthetic all these many years later.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The poem reappeared two
years later in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Stanzas for an Evening Out,
</i>one of the best books of that decade, possibly even <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the </i>best. A 203-page volume published in what was, for a generation
just coming into its 30s in the mid-70s, a large edition, 950 paperback copies <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">&amp; 50 hard cover</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Stanzas </i>was &amp; still is an awesome
demonstration first of ambition &amp; achievement, but also of deep ambivalence
toward the poem. In some ways, the book was designed precisely as a farewell to
writing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The title of the very first
poem, &#8220;Second Generation,&#8221; offers a clue as to the origin of Faville&#8217;s great
discomfort with poetry. To a degree unmatched in his generation (or for that
matter, since), Faville had an uncanny ear for the poetry of his time &amp; was
an almost perfect mimic of any writer&#8217;s style. Here, for example, is Faville&#8217;s
version of Grenier, an untitled poem:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">This morning got up saw<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">THE WHITE GEESE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">IN THE WHITE GRASS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">then</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> went
back to sleep<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">One that recalls the first
phase of </span><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ob</span></st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">jectivism (especially Reznikoff) is entitled
&#8220;Ghosts&#8221;:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The wire wheels of the Stutz
Bearcat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">when</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> time applied
the brakes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I saw the sensuous manifold<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<st1:city><st1:place><span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">brea</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">the</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> the
fumes of another age<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">&#8220;The Knife in the Water,&#8221; a
poem whose subtitle acknowledges that it is &#8220;(after Polanski)&#8221; also keeps an
eye on </span><st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">Robert Creeley</span></st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">&#8217;s use of enjambment:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The object is<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">to</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> keep
the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">knife</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">
between<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">the</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">
fingers of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">the</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> woman<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">spreading</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> her<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">vast</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> spaces<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">apart</span></i></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> from<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">rain</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> which<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">falls</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> upward<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">through</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">sail&#8217;s</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> arc<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">like</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">
pick-up sticks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Bill Berkson, Larry Eigner,
Louis Zukofsky, Jimmy Schuyler, Anselm Hollo &amp; William Carlos Williams turn
up again &amp; again in these poems, often in complex duos &#8211; thus in &#8220;Aubade&#8221; I
hear echoes of both Schuyler &amp; Zukofsky, two New Yorkers not normally
associated with one another. Ashbery &amp; O&#8217;Hara &amp; Berrigan also <span class="GramE">turn</span> up, though less often. It&#8217;s a particularly 1970s
gathering &#8211; very white male, for one thing &#8211; in part because the Creeley that
turns up is the Creeley of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Words </i>&amp;
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pieces</i> &amp; in part because Grenier,
who at that point still was close to unknown outside of a relatively tight
circle of like-minded writers, is so visibly the uniting influence here, as
though Faville has somehow found the Grenier in Berkson, the Grenier in
Schuyler, the Grenier even in Williams:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">hear</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">huge</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">fragments</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">of</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> music
an<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">amplified</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> guitar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">makes</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> to
sound<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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might read a volume such as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Stanzas</i>.
One would be to dismiss it as a derivative project that invariably had to come
to an end. This, I think, would be a serious mistake. Faville is, or was,
derivative in much the same way as Robert Duncan, a self-proclaimed derivative
poet*, using influences as tools, critiquing them in the same instant as he
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">One might also view the work
as an instance in which a gifted student </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">nev</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial;">er finds his own &#8220;voice.&#8221; Again, this reading would
be a mistake. If anything, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Stanzas </i>can
be read as a devastating critique of the concept of voice, which was far more
seriously ascendant in the politics of poetry in the 1970s than it is today. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Rather, I read this work &#8211;
and I think this is both the most accurate &amp; most fruitful approach &#8211; as if
it were an argument with Grenier. Faville shares much if not all of Grenier&#8217;s
analysis of the limits of a writing in which <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Literary</i> has been superimposed. What Faville doesn&#8217;t share is
Grenier&#8217;s conclusion. The same set of constraints that led Grenier into
language &amp; the ultra-minimalism of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sentences
&#8211;</i> really a mode of magnification, the tiniest elements blown up under the
microscope of inspection &#8211; to something beyond what most of us have traditionally
thought of as writing, which comes out in Grenier&#8217;s work as drawn poems, as
&#8220;scrawl,&#8221; take Faville to a position that shares more than a little with, say, </span><st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">Laura</span></st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Riding, or with the last sentence of Wittgenstein&#8217;s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tractatus</i>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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emerge on the scene. You can see it in Lee Ann Brown, </span><st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">Linh Dinh</span></st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">, Eleni Sikelianos, and </span><st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">Lisa Jarnot</span></st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">, to name four.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;
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they can, but rather that obsessiveness with smoothing out the dissonance of
the creative process is ultimately a destructive impulse, born of a decorative
conception of literature. Yet it is precisely this process that is inscribed as
the core activity of so many creative writing classes wherever they are taught,
people sitting around in small circles, suggesting how this or that line break
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1977, Curtis Faville self-published a brilliant &amp; troubling
collection of poems entitled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Stanzas for
an Evening Out.</i> Faville (who these days runs the Compass Rose rare book
operation, one of the best for modern poetry: <a href="http://www.abebooks.com/home/COMPASSROSE/">http://www.abebooks.com/home/COMPASSROSE/</a>)
is/was an extraordinary student &amp; mimic of contemporary style, but also
someone who seems always to have felt a most charged &amp; ambivalent
relationship toward writers in his own generation as well as those who came
before. (No accident here that the first poem in the book is entitled &#8220;Second
Generation.&#8221;) I&#8217;ve always read that book&#8217;s title with the pun (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Evening</i> as a verb) in the foreground. So
while I don&#8217;t share his cynical view of the state of writing (which may have
moderated over the past quarter century), I think that title captures the
problem as it confronts not only creative writing students, but so many poets
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Evened out</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;"> describes quite fairly what is wrong with poetry in
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