Remove the Predicate (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Clark Coolidge
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: History, Language or languages, Communication, Youth, Speech, Tourist trade, Learning or scholarship, Rome
The Poem
To the casual glance, this poem reads like an anecdote that someone on quaaludes is trying to tell. While there are enough components to encourage one to make the usual kind of sense, a quick glance shows that these components are at times displaced, distorted, or diffused. Re-readings reveal these first impressions to be accurate but inadequate. The author was anything but language-impaired or addled by drugs. Yet even as one traces symmetries that can scarcely be thought unintended, something of one’s early impression remains: One is reminded that any use of...
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