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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'><a href="http://www.atticusfinch.org/taggart.htm"><span style='color:black'>Unveiling / Marianne Moore</span></a></span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, the latest chapbook from Michael Cross&#8217; <a href="http://www.atticusfinch.org/"><span style='color:black'>Atticus/Finch</span></a> Press consists of two movements from a larger work by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_Valley"><span style='color:black'>Cumberland Valley</span></a> poet, <a href="http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&amp;d/le-ry-jt.htm"><span style='color:black'>John Taggart</span></a>. Taggart, whom I&#8217;ve been reading since he was what you might call a student poet out of the University of Chicago (he would go on to get his Ph.D. at Syracuse), is somebody I never would have thought to have called a Cumberland Valley poet before his last book <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.floodeditions.com/new/taggart.html"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Pastorelles</span></span></a>. </i>As a young poet, Taggart was one of the first in his generation to really base his practice on his reading of the Objectivist poets, especially that of Louis Zukofsky &amp; George <span class=SpellE>Oppen</span>. But where others might have been interested in the work of these poets for their political allegiances, or in Zukofsky for his work on the materiality of the signifier, the <span class=SpellE>thingyness</span> of his language as Stephen Colbert might put it, Taggart&#8217;s interest appears more to have been in the careers of these two poets as a philosophical or critical project.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>It was, at least as I read it, that philosophical dimension that proved to be a bridge from these early books to the works for which Taggart is most widely known, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Slow Song for Mark Rothko </i>and a series of works that invoke the musicians <span class=SpellE>Thelonius</span> Monk &amp; John Coltrane. Marked by a use of reiteration that reminded some readers of Steve Reich or Terry Riley, and which others took as a call for poetry as ecstasy or transcendence, it&#8217;s worth noting that Taggart has not only used his influences as conscious, even revered models, but that he has always chosen those whose practice can be read (or seen or listened to) as among the most philosophic in their genre&#8217;s recent history. Indeed, that musicians like Monk &amp; Coltrane demonstrated how one could think in their music is precisely what someone like <span class=SpellE>Wynton</span> Marsalis objects to in their work. And when one hears that &#8220;the trouble&#8221; with Zukofsky is that he is so willing to be difficult, it&#8217;s largely the same complaint. So it&#8217;s intriguing, if not
absolutely scandalous, that somebody like John Taggart can come along and demonstrate the arc of emotion that lurks in the work of these artists.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Taggart&#8217;s current piece, at least from the portions visible here, continues these inclinations, organizing <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Unveiling / Marianne Moore </i>around three historic figures: Moore, who was herself briefly a Cumberland Valley poet during the years when she taught at the Carlisle Indian School prior to heading to New York, 18<sup>th</sup> century Philadelphia naturalist William Bartram &amp;, geographically the outlier here, Marilyn Monroe. Seeing in Monroe not simply an echo of Moore&#8217;s own name, but also an antithesis in their conceptions of the feminine, yet even deeper an echo of their self-willed approach to the world, neither of them really capable of being copied as such (tho with Monroe at least there have been nearly an infinite number of attempts). These elements commingle, section to section:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>The truth is naked<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>the</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'> truer truth is the A after B truth the figurative/the body<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>after</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'> finally/at last without<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>a</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'> stitch.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>10<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>A new name a true name unpublished not<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>in</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'> the books<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.75in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-.25in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span class=SpellE><span class=GramE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>nomen</span></span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'> <span class=SpellE>nudum</span> a naked name<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>But the structure of this chapbook opens up many more questions than it answers. The two movements represent sections 1 &#8211; 27 and 73 -87. What comes between? Does it end with 87 or, as I hope, go onward? How do the elements of Chinese cultural history, which are sprinkled throughout, come to relate finally to the trio of major figures spelled out here (and, in fact, are the three all there are? What about Alexander Wilson, Bartram&#8217;s student, who just peeks in here toward the end?<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>As always with Atticus/Finch books, the production values here are simply gorgeous. In the image above, you can just make out the &#8220;Skinny tree sparsely branched&#8217; impressed in the palest gray ink into the pale green cover, the image itself taken from the first line of this work that proclaims it is &#8220;lacking / a felicitous phrase to begin.&#8221; But as so often happens with chapbooks taken from much larger projects, as grand as it is &#8211; and this is one of the nicest books Taggart has ever had &#8211; it leaves you hungry for more, maybe not answers to the mysteries here so much, but at least the full suite which promises to be grand. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>One of the very best things
about poetry is micropublishing. My definition of micropublishing is any book
or journal done in such a fashion as to preclude bookstore distribution, even
via <a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/">Small Press Distribution</a>. Two very
different examples are sitting on my desk. I&#8217;m going to look at one today, the
other tomorrow.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>Sylvester <span
class=SpellE>Pollet&#8217;s</span> Backwoods Broadsides are printed on a single of
sheet of paper, which is then folded into a simple pamphlet. Printed on a
schedule of eight issues per year, the Broadsides must just now be completing
their ninth year. With a distribution list that has swollen to 750, <span
class=SpellE>Pollet&#8217;s</span> series may produce small publications, but they
get excellent distribution for poetry. The current issue, no. 70, is <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>5 Pastorelles</i> by John Taggart. Since
individual pastorelles are numbered 5 through 9, we know they&#8217;re part of a
longer series. This is especially good news, because these are among the
strongest poems Taggart has written. My favorite is number 8, organized around
an image any Pennsylvanian will recognize:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'>Young woman<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'>Amish<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial'>green</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial'> dress black apron translucent white prayer bonnet<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial'>strings</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial'> of her bonnet trailing in the air<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial'>rollerskating</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial'> down the road<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial'>by</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial'> herself alone in the air and light of an ungloomy
Sunday afternoon<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial'>herself</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial'> and her skating shadow<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial'>the</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial'> painter said<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial'>beauty</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial'> is what we add to things<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial'>and</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial'> I<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial'>chainsawing</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial'> in the woods above the road<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial'>say</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial'> what could be added<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial'>what</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial'> other than giving this roaring machine a rest. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-family:Arial'>The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics </span></i><span
style='font-family:Arial'>identifies the </span><st1:City><st1:place><span
  class=SpellE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:
  Arial'>pasto</span></i></span></st1:place></st1:City><span class=SpellE><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'>urelle</span></i></span><i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'> </span></i><span
style='font-family:Arial'>as <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span class=GramE>A
genre of lyric poetry most frequent in OF [Old French].</span> In the classical
type the narrator, who is sometimes identified as a knight, recounts his
meeting with a shepherdess and his attempt to seduce her. Sometimes the
narrator is humiliated, even beaten, or the shepherdess makes a clever escape;
in other poems they make love, either with the consent of the shepherdess or by
rape. (888)</p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>Taggart&#8217;s pastorelles seem
more confrontations with an <span class=GramE>Other</span>, capital O, as with
this poem, the first of two parts to &#8220;</span><st1:City><st1:place><span
  class=SpellE><span style='font-family:Arial'>Pasto</span></span></st1:place></st1:City><span
class=SpellE><span style='font-family:Arial'>relle</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial'> 6&#8221;: <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'>Cleft fissured<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&#160;</span><span
class=GramE>the</span> appearance of veins<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial'>close</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial'> vein against close vein vertical and<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
class=SpellE><span class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial'>criss</span></span></span><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial'>-crossed</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial'>dark</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial'>crevices</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial'> between<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial'>dark</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial'>between</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial'> the blue-grey veins<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial'>each</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial'> trunk each small trunk woven a woven <span
class=SpellE>fibre</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial'>of</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial'> exposed veins<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial'>against</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial'> early March snow still remaining<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial'>venous</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial'> fiber bark<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.75in;text-indent:-.25in'><span
class=GramE><span style='font-family:Arial'>of</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial'> the <span class=SpellE>tatarian</span> honeysuckle. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=SpellE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span
style='font-family:Arial'>Tatarian</span></i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'><span style='font-family:Arial'> </span></i><span style='font-family:
Arial'>is a mysterious word, not found in the online version of the <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://www.yourdictionary.com/">American
Heritage<span style='font-style:normal'> </span>Collegiate</a></i>, <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Webster&#8217;s Ninth New Collegiate, </i>nor the <i
style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>OED. </i>The latter volume, however,
suggests that it is a plausible variant of <span class=SpellE>tartarian</span>,
which can mean alternately<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style='font-family:Arial'>related to the
Tartar people of central </span><st1:place><span style='font-family:Arial'>Asia</span></st1:place><span
style='font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;
margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 1.0in'><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
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Wingdings'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>&#167;<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style='font-family:Arial'>poisonous<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 1.0in'><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
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Wingdings'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>&#167;<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style='font-family:Arial'>infernal<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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Wingdings'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>&#167;<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style='font-family:Arial'>a cloth like
silk<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>To use an unknowable, or at
least <span class=SpellE>undecidable</span>, term in the focal position of the
final line is an interesting strategy. This poem is a verbal equivalent of
close photography &#8211; by choosing a term that is itself Other right next to the
final word, Taggart manages to render the reader&#8217;s sense of referential focus
both so close as to seem verbally &#8220;blurred&#8221; right before it snaps back into sharp
relief with the brilliant <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>honeysuckle, </i>a
word as important for all its lush &amp; contrasting sounds as it is for the
familiar image<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>. </i>And while I have a
much more positive association with the Tartars (owing to a friend who has such
heritage) than one might </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-family:
  Arial'>gath</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-family:Arial'>er
from alternate meanings like poisonous or infernal, the multiplicity of
possibilities here pleases me more than any single meaning.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Arial'>Taggart has woven in his
signature use of repetition into what is otherwise reasonably straightforward
description, an approach that feels to me more grounded than the works that
carry reiteration to a dervish-like intensity. I&#8217;m also intrigued about the
extra leading between lines, which give the stanzas a more open and ethereal
feel than they would have had single spaced. He&#8217;s not the first poet to do this
(think of late Oppen, for example) but I always find myself wanting to pull
these lines together, as though they were starting to drift apart.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place><span class=SpellE><span style='font-family:Arial'>Po</span></span></st1:place><span
class=SpellE><span style='font-family:Arial'>llet&#8217;s</span></span><span
style='font-family:Arial'> choices for the Backwoods Broadside series have been
wide-ranging, a great virtue. Many of the participants come out of some aspect
of the Projectivist tradition, including Ted Enslin, Cid Corman, Ron Johnson,
Jonathan Williams, Pierre Joris, Robert Creeley, &amp; Clayton Eshleman. Also
present are representatives of the </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span
  style='font-family:Arial'>New York</span></st1:PlaceName><span
 style='font-family:Arial'> </span><st1:PlaceType><span style='font-family:
  Arial'>School</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span style='font-family:
Arial'>&#8217;s later generations: Anne Waldman, Aram <span class=SpellE>Saroyan</span>,
Kathleen Fraser, Lee Ann Brown, <span class=SpellE><span class=GramE>Sotére</span></span>
<span class=SpellE>Torregian</span>. Objectivism&#8217;s history can be traced from
Carl Rakosi, through George <span class=SpellE>Economou</span>, Ron Johnson,
Robert Vas Dias, Michael Heller and of course Taggart. So can a more
experimental tradition from Bern Porter to Alan Jennifer Sondheim to Sheila E.
Murphy to Armand <span class=SpellE>Schwerner</span> &amp; Jerome Rothenberg.
Older traditions are obviously of interest: Mary and <span class=SpellE>Patrizia</span>
de <span class=SpellE>Rachewiltz</span>, Osip Mandelstam. Rogue laureate Amiri
Baraka and </span><st1:State><st1:place><span style='font-family:Arial'>Wisconsin</span></st1:place></st1:State><span
style='font-family:Arial'> post-Beat Antler (!) both show up here. And there
are lots of writers here I&#8217;ve never heard of before. It&#8217;s an awesome range of
what is possible in today&#8217;s poetry, available in annual subscriptions of $10
through <span class=SpellE>Pollet</span> at </span><st1:address><st1:Street><span
  style='font-family:Arial'>963 <span class=SpellE>Winkumpaugh</span> Road</span></st1:Street><span
 style='font-family:Arial'>, </span><st1:City><span style='font-family:Arial'>Ellsworth</span></st1:City><span
 style='font-family:Arial'>, </span><st1:State><span style='font-family:Arial'>Maine</span></st1:State><span
 style='font-family:Arial'> </span><st1:PostalCode><span style='font-family:
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