poetry/antipoetry & exploitation movies
marton koppany, one of my very favorite poets & human beings, put together a new website where you can find many of his poems & download pdfs of his books
please click on the link below
but i warn you that engaging in marton's poems is addicting
you might find yourself hungering for a lot more of his poems
fair warning!
to live in the world as it is
settled in for the nite on the couch to read a few pages from the novel i downloaded on my phone when i hear the growl & screech of a fight between two cats / oh shit leo is an outdoor cat / tho i must admit that it seems he is less our cat than we are leo's humans / for leo has gotten into scrapes before which required stitches / so i put on my clothes to go outside when i hear leo from a neighbor across the street & a few doors down / she sees me & says leo is safe it was the other cat who was the aggressor / we introduce ourselves by name / we've both lived on the same street for years / & this the first time we meet / she says that everyone on our street loves leo / he's such a laidback kitty / & i confess to her that we [anna, nick & me] think leo [who appeared from nowhere a few years ago on our doorstep] is everyone's cat / for he seems to make himself at home even on the sidewalk / yet it makes me happy to know that leo is beloved among our neighbors / for he is a charismatic kitty / who knows how or why / such is the mystery / i recall a video i watched online / where a raven landed next a beachcomber / hopped up to him / & whispered hello
what is poetry?
poetry is a duchampian readymade
poetry is whatever the antipoet says it to be
[email to jonathan hayes]
one striking post-war phenomenon has been the transformation of numerous countries into pseudo-places whose function is simply to entice tourists
--paul fussell [abroad (epigraph to night thoughts by derek mahon; collected poems, gallery books 1999)]
