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Namedropper
Racine down the walk with Goethe too tight all plump
and Rossini and Rubens against Gustave's Dore' like
Wilde Burroughs Trilling through the Hardy Hopkins
where the Bulfinch Knowles in the Pritchett Tillich of
us sees that Flannery will get us nowhere O'Connor I
see you Haydn under the bed you can't fool me I got my
Edgar Lee Masters at Coleridge so you Van Gogh only so
far as what's in a name that makes us reJoyce when
Anne Hathaway to change her mind you how things might
be if Ford Maddox Chevrolet or P. S. Eliot or Robert
Pencil Warren or Mississippi Williams were to Ad
Reinhardt to the list we forget to ask Dear Robert is
your Motherwell and is Clifford Still around two
thousand Dos Passos they offered me once to do Boris
at the Met but I told them I wasn't Godonov but then
Mozart history was boring way Bach then so Shelley go
to the river and Thoreau Twain to the Winters and have
some Teasdale and Mallarme' with Proust or Shaw we
Drinkwater and Dryden out the Trollope in the
Thackeray and Trotsky down to the Fielding like
Rimbaud and Pope Lorca in the Toynbee or Hegel
Heidegger in the Murdoch or take our last Pound and
Oppen the Hardwick Parker until the Longfellow Dickens
Digges Rip Van Winkle because after all what are
Wordsworth anyway.
John Sokol's poems have appeared in America,
Antigonish Review, The Berkeley Poetry Review,
Georgetown Review, New Millennium Writings, The New
York Quarterly, and Quarterly West, among others. His
chapbook, "Kissing the Bees," winner of the 1999
Redgreene Press Chapbook Competition, is available
through Amazon.com
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