looking at my bks of poetry, mainly galleys fr Ahsahta ~ all interesting, several very appealing:

Liz Waldner - saving the appearances. =kepler. + euclid, early book title "a point is that which has no part." + references to gospels & wave physics. ~as if sjc.
p8 self-interrogation: in physics lab, waves. the glint of the creek. 'I succeeded back then in not knowing there were things to ask.'

Brigitte Byrd - Fence Above the Sea. bckcvr: mourning daughter.* ( * All the new thinking is about loss. / In this it resembles all the old thinking )
prose poems. ~in italics, things said, repeated, like me, mine (I'm so sorry. at the window. all the fish in the sea.)
requiem series. 'and then, there was another day.' another day, another day. (townes: going to write a song about birds. bluebird. another bird. another bird, another bird.) 'it is hard to turn away from moving water', repeated quotation of Lyn Hejinian, My Life. ( yes, yes it is hard, to turn away. from anything moving. )

Rusty Morrison - the true keeps calm biding its secret. bckcvr: aftermath father's death.* ( * All the new thinking is about loss. / In this it resembles all the old thinking )
every page at top 'please advise stop' and every line ends stop. stop. please. advise. stop.


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and Saba. Songbook. I love this book! italian. the animals. honest.

p40, p516 the animals! - gli animali. le bestie. tell of life, they reveal its fonde.

at end, essay: What remains for poets to do: It remains for poets to write honest poetry.
'if the principle is not established that one cannot falsify one's vision (turn a mirror into a judge or fearful God), the overall result will be the death of personality.' yesyesyes Hughes TSEliot dancer to god.
'..invalids far from native land whose last hope for cure is the air of home. Thus it remain to return to the origins, with a labor perhaps more of selection and reconstruction than of newest creation; it remains to accomplish what until now has only been rarely and partially achieved: honest poetry.