Comments on: An Exemplary Lyric by Jane Cooper http://www.sharpsand.net/2007/11/07/an-exemplary-lyric-by-jane-cooper/ Joseph Duemer's blog about reading, writing, politics, birds, food, & weather Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:06:12 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: jd http://www.sharpsand.net/2007/11/07/an-exemplary-lyric-by-jane-cooper/comment-page-1/#comment-6474 jd Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:56:18 +0000 http://www.sharpsand.net/2007/11/07/an-exemplary-lyric-by-jane-cooper/#comment-6474 Peter, that's pretty exemplary, too. Peter, that’s pretty exemplary, too.

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He had one of those lets-get-rich-
while-we-pay-the-workers-shit jobs
counting objects in stores
in the middle of the night

just back from Iraq he craved
amnesia and the solitude of rows
cans and boxes piled like stones
to be labeled and accounted for

the life of a hang-nail itching
to be bitten off and the whole
point so he could be trapped

inside the changes he can’t control
dreadfully renegotiating the route
back to childhood’s abandoned no.

]]> By: Robert http://www.sharpsand.net/2007/11/07/an-exemplary-lyric-by-jane-cooper/comment-page-1/#comment-6470 Robert Thu, 08 Nov 2007 05:35:25 +0000 http://www.sharpsand.net/2007/11/07/an-exemplary-lyric-by-jane-cooper/#comment-6470 You may have set a new metric in poetry: the moisture scale. Is the poem pleasantly moist like, say, San Diego -- or do you find yourself swim-walking through it like an Orlando summer? Enjoying the recent flurry of poetics posts. You may have set a new metric in poetry: the moisture scale. Is the poem pleasantly moist like, say, San Diego — or do you find yourself swim-walking through it like an Orlando summer?

Enjoying the recent flurry of poetics posts.

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