Title: Poem Demerging. Author: ME! $5 from Phrygian Press, 55-09 205th Street, Bayside NY 11364. 21 linguexpressive poems (i.e., poems that are linguistically expressive only) about my alter ego, Poem.
Here’s the opener, which I chose because it’s among the most accessible of the poems in the collection, it quickly lets the reader know that Poem is a person, and I like it:
. A Bicycle Ride
. Heat-blurred, brittle,
. and crowded nearly numb
. by what seemed like
. a hundred drubbling obligations,
. Poem abruptly took off on his bike.
. For miles he rode,
. no destination in mind,
. or belief in the possibility of one.
. Finally, late in the afternoon,
. he came to a seaside lot
. as yet untouched by urban planning.
. there, as he drank in the fragments of harbor
. a wind-stirred scruffy clump of mangroves was rendering
. just-unsecret,
. his arrival began.
Phyrgian Press is the one-man operation of Arnold Skemer. It has published seven other chapbooks in the series mine is in. They are by Arnold himself, Alan Catlin, Richard Kostelanetz, Leonard Cirino, Guy R. Beining, Geof Huth and Jon Cone. Arnold has also published a $10 collection by Jonathan Hayes.