ROBERT CRUMB ~

ALL OF IT :

April 23, 2025

 

THE ANTHOLOGY OF BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE POETRY ~

 

R E A D   M E

A treasure, truly. 

Poets well drawn and well built biographies.   

But, in the chapter "Affiliates" —

where is Cid Corman?

     The University of North Carolina Press

     2025

Night Landscape in Nelson County, Kentucky

ah, Moon, shine

thou as amber in thy

charred keg, hickory sky . . .

still as a still, steep

as a horse's face

JONATHAN WILLIAMS

A Piece

One and

one, two,

three.

ROBERT CREELEY

Calm down

what happens

happens mostly

without you

JOSEF ALBERS

from Twenty-Four Love Songs

20

When I heard the public story

of how they'd thrown away

their wedding rings, and how

the rings had been picked up

by the garbage men and taken

to the dump, and how laughing

finally they went out with flashlights

and found them that night I wondered

did they put them back on?

ED DORN

Imagine Inventing Yellow

Imagine inventing yellow or moving

For the first time in a cherry curve.

M.C. RICHARDS

Nine

It's not what

you think

it's something

else.

CYNTHIA HOMIRE

The Huron

I swam the Huron of love, and I am not ashamed,

It was many saw me do it, scoffing, scoffing,

They said it was foolish, winter and all,

But I dove in, greaselike, and swam,

And came up where Erie verges.

I would say for the expenditure of love,

And the atrophy of longing, there is no cure

So swift, so sleek, so fine, so draining

As a swim through the Huron in the wintertime.

RUTH HERSCHBERGER