by phillipw | Mar 16, 2020 | LO, SE
Slickened Interior like Patent Lust You’ve become a leather outfit just for me, But not a black one. You are supple, brown, And warm. I bend the elbow and the knee, Then feel that sturdy thigh…and touch this frown Of leather at the armpit, creases that Stretch...
by phillipw | Mar 15, 2020 | AN, MO
Assaulting the Backbone of Beauty The deliberate program, then, of a “break” with the past or tradition seems to me to be a sentimental fallacy. ~ Hart Crane Pathetic prophet Crane did not foresee de Kooning or that Jackson Pollock reek On canvass. Crane’s...
by phillipw | Mar 15, 2020 | AE, BE, ES, MA
Troy in New Orleans, Manhattan, or London So I found “Helen” sitting in a streetcar; the Dionysian revels of her court were transferred to a Metropolitan roof garden with a jazz orchestra;and the katharsis of the fall of Troy I saw approximated in the recent World...
by phillipw | Mar 15, 2020 | BE
Monarch on the Cushions of his Throne He has a rattan halo over him. He lies on velvet and embroidery. The rattan is a woven saint-like rim Come down as if by heavenly decree To change the world forever for the best. The velvet on his cushion is a red Of royalty...
by phillipw | Mar 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
A Sonnet Crane’s indebtedness to the discourses of modernism … includes subjects as well as styles: … for instance… his linguistic density, which is his verbal equivalent of montage or cubist effect “The Homosexual...
