How to Kill Poetry Raymond Luczak 9781937420291 Books
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With the ghosts of Emily Dickinson, Arthur Rimbaud, Sappho, and Walt Whitman leading the way, How to Kill Poetry showcases a highly selective overview of Western civilization poetic development from its oral traditions to the silence of pixels. The narrative then jumps 200 years into the future where the unfortunate consequences of global warming create a dramatic backdrop against which poetry--if it is to have any redeeming value--must survive.
How to Kill Poetry Raymond Luczak 9781937420291 Books
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How to Kill Poetry Raymond Luczak 9781937420291 Books Reviews
Raymond Luczak is a deaf, gay writer whose poetry transcends most standard boundaries to become something completely unique. In an interview Luczak stated `My deafness wasn't diagnosed until I was two and half years old. I had a hearing aid and speech therapy. I didn't learn sign language until I was 15, [and] it was Signing Exact English (SEE). I didn't know there was Deaf culture. I began to write daily after my grandmother died, so I've been at it for over 30 years. Writing was my refuge when no one in my mainstream classes wanted to interact with me.'
Perhaps in these quoted lines form his interview we gain some insight into the mysterious and often hilarious and sometimes distraught approach Luczak takes in his approach to poets of the past. This book defies description because there is no other collection of ideas and poems and interpretations and reflections quite like it. He writes in the voices of past poets and finds conversations never heard before. But in the final appreciation comes the gleam of Luczak's own poems. In his LEAVES OF GLASS [sic] he writes the following
DEHYDRATION
Veins have never been so transparent.
My face is a map of broken journeys.
The road has sunburned my punctured face.
Breathing is a toughened art.
Winds shiver through my spine.
Dreams flit about like dead flies.
Tree shadows hide my sneezes.
My bones have no cushion for ache.
Vultures above hiss their taunts.
I lie there with my mouth open for rain.
My skin weeps for the river of love.
And in another section he offers this
NO IS YES AND YES IS NO (after Gertrude Stein (1872- 1946)
A poem is not a poem may be a poem.
My hands are but a single line.
Listen not what I say but what they do.
Bang dum dum. Who. Now.
They scribble words unspooling
a skein scrambled in the squiggles
of brain, memory, books.
This here a word not needed.
Watch sighs bounce in winds.
Summer days, winter seasons.
Alone words break backs.
Sit quiet. Birds flick.
I know you or you know I.
Sense makes nothing.
Woman is man of the world.
Gardens explode buttons.
Forever too short a fuse.
And in his poem that seems to summarize this celebration he writes
HOW TO KILL POETRY
Syphilis and shadows are the stuff of poetry.
It's crack, meth, and heroin mixed together.
One prick in your arm, and your life's gone to hell.
No, sirree! We can't let that happen.
Listen up, boys. It's time to clack
those tommy guns, keep them hidden
next to your heart. Secondhand bookstores are
worse than opium dens of intelligence.
So, when you patrol those seedy shelves,
look out for lit radicals pontificating.
They're just infected junkies leeching
for attention they can't get anywhere else.
Writing a stanza is an act of sabotage.
Such pamphlets respect no allegiance.
They use foreign words like smoke and mirrors,
and our country's dumbed-down future's at risk.
So, if you overhear someone utter
a line of such precision that stops you,
don't be fooled. It's a snuff film
in disguise. Somebody's got to die.
It just can't be any of you,
or we'd have no law and order left.
That's why you boys must shoot
great poems on sight.
Raymond Luczak takes us where we`ve never been before and the journey is challenging and VERY rewarding. Also crazy...Grady Harp, January 13
It was well worth the money!
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