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SOME ADVICE
by Ko Un (tr. Brother Anthony of Taizé and Lee Sang-Wha)
Poems
block the path for better poems.
Poems
block the path for subsequent poems.
Poems, poems, my blue poems!
Escape somehow from the history of poetry,
from fashions of poetry,
from a hundred years of poetic authority.
Be born trembling, wild and alone.
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(from First Person Sorrowful)
Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate 2014-2019, has published 20 collections of poems and edited or co-edited three poetry anthologies. He currently directs two master’s-level programs for University College at the University of Denver: Professional Creative Writing and Arts & Culture Management. Joe lives with his wife, Melody Madonna, in the mountains southwest of Denver, Colorado, the city where he was born. 
In what has become a private comment, Ed mentions Ko Un's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Flowers-Moment-Lannan-Translations-Selection/dp/1929918887" rel="nofollow"><i>Flowers of a Moment</i></a>, a gorgeous book that inspired this poem in my 2012 chapbook <a href="http://foldedchaps.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/the-earth-boat/" rel="nofollow"><i>The Earth-Boat</i></a>:<br /><br /><br /><b>After
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"Be born trembling, wild and alone"<br /><br />Love it!