Monday, August 31, 2009
DFJP Launch
This is my new blog. Yep.
The name is taken from two poems in Ron Padgett's book Great Balls of Fire, one of my favorite books of poetry to date. It's full of playful, absurd, avante garde poetry that a normal person would use to hack their rhinovirus into. It's perfect.
My first hors d'oeuvre of Padgett was his anthologized poem (Post-Modern American Poetry, Norton) "Nothing in that Drawer." That's all I'm going to say on that poem. Read it. It'll change your mind about contemporary poetry no matter what view of it you already come from. Oh yeah. The other poem is simply titled "Jet Plane." One of the best poems ever written because of it's very existence and what it sums up.
Drawer+Jet Plane= Drawer Full of Jet Planes
You, scanner, are welcome!
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