why does he write poems: it’s the only way he can mean
what he says: you mean, say what he means: yes,
but it’s harder for him to mean something than say
something: his sayings are facile, light-headed, and
discontinuous: he keeps saying in order to hope he will
say something he means: poems help him mean what he says:
poems connect the threads between the tuft of his head
and the true water: that’s important to him, like roots
to a turf: without it, the separation would be awful…
—from “Hibernaculum,” by A. R. Ammons, in Collected Poems: 1951-1971
me thinks I'll be busy for awhile getting more deeper into Ammons' Hibernaculum…<br /><br />deeper into Stone Mother ..<br /><br />via this:<br /><br />http://books.google.com/books?id=QXf59eT65-0C&pg=PA118&lpg=PA118&dq=Hibernaculum+A.+R.+Ammons&source=bl&ots=VmJ6j-JrLg&sig=Ysjwq9qnAA4pUTuwfk4IhauxYSw&hl=en&ei=zk28Tau9M9G9tgez2IHKBQ&sa=X&oi=
the minimum number to make a valid minion is 13<br />so as not to cheapen the comprrtmeant of any run<br />on of "light-headed, and<br />disconinuous: he keeps saying in order to hope he will say something he means" -ness<br /><br />you continue to come up with guys that I feel "right-at-home with and have felt<br /> but only onct;<br />
I like this one, Joseph<br /><br />"his sayings are facile, light-headed, and discontinuous"<br /><br />Tell me about it!<br /><br />Here's the opening verse from Frank O'Hara's "Poem":<br /><br />"The hosts of dreams and their impoverished minionswho like guests are departing never, fading alwaysinto something more real and less expensive, slooptowards