Oulipo project

Working on an Oulipo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo) poetry project where I take the 5th line from each of my poems that I have saved on my computer to date and make one Super-poem from them. This will be a long process as I don't intend to just take the lines and then drop them onto a page and THERE YA GO. I'm thinking up another system to devise how to put the lines together. Right now they are arranged alphabetically (by poem title) on the page.

More to come.

Boone Co., WVa.

The damn clutch

-- this I could never say.

My dad believed in the good book

and psychology books and the $5.95 books

and he believed in dirt roads because

unlike Tennessee roads they were there.

I practiced driving his truck

because that's what 13 year old boys do

on abandoned mine roads.

That stick shift with its glossy red paint

job and grey plastic trim around the wheel-wells

stalled on every hill and each flat ground.

The side roads were the worst:

smaller, steeper -- gravel big enough to jar.

I don't know why we drove the tributaries.

What's New

So, probably been like months since I've been on here.

Whose fault is that, eh? (guilty)

Well I seem to be writing more, yet it isn't quite in my aesthetic that I had so confidently thought was permanent. I am still more interested in the surreal, the absurd, the nihilistic even.

I'll toss my most recent workshop submission up here to give you a taste of the change.

But, never fear, I'm working on a series of "Man Poems" that I'm pretty happy with. I'm up to 6 so far. More to come

Bob Hicok.

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16657

check him out.

Thanks, Aaron Rote!