POETICKS

Like all the work that’s been in my blog recently, these two are from Kalligram–in particular, from the section edited by Marton Koppany called “Reducalt Nyelvek,” with an accent on the three a’s in the preceding Hungarian words:

I think I may like bright, instantly likable, pure visual poems like these more than just about anything else in poetry.  I think the way I’d put it is that there are days when no other kind of poem could be so welcome–and no days when such poems would not be welcome.  Well, just about no days.
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