if the personal is political then the poetical is indeed personal. could it be otherwise? wait, before you answer that i have beside me as i type my copy of berrigan's collected poems. took me years and most of my 20s to appreciate the grand poet's achievement. argue as much as you'd like about abstraction and lyric writing but i want to know that the poems are made by a person.

so it goes that the weekend was spent at the california state fair, always an event in our lives. i'd post pics but the damn camera battery went low. nicholas had a blast as did mommy and daddy. even tho nicholas is at that hyper-imaginative stage in his development where ordinary scenes and situations can scare the dookie out of him. cows for example, who are large and with loud moo. when he delights in something, such as a pony ride, it is like billy blake back from the dead conjuring his visions of heaven and hell. we'll be back this weekend and hopefully take pics so you can see what we see.

then reread kevin killian's collection of poems based on the great italian director dario argento's films the argento series. these harrowing texts are precisely what i mean by the poetical being personal and tho they are full of sadness and horror about friends lost to the aids epidemic filtered thru baroque horror movies, there is a lust for life that is so rich and powerful that i came away from my reading refreshed.

then it was more stephen king reading and watching the old vincent price movie the last man on earth on google video.

as killian and bellamy wrote: the poetry is in the gore. next up are two more reviews by paul murphy.