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For Basil Bunting
thirteen years . we waited
Appolonius was silent five
"Brag, sweet tenor bull"
the 'r' rolled noisily
under the tongue
the young, B
even though you spell our names wrong
see answer, think question
young girl
at the feet of
serving wine
Jack * passed
the Thunderbird around
We're all drinking in
Zukofsky's 'blue light'
thinking Shadow you
probably never heard . knows
B . the young sit
and drink the landscape
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* John Clarke 1933-1996(?)
Jack Clarke was born in Winesburg, Ohio. He taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo for 29 years, during which time he acted as Director of the Institute of Further Studies (founded in 1965) and oversaw the ongoing series of fascicles conceptualized by Charles Olson as A Curriculum of the Soul (work since carried on by Albert Glover). He is the author of Lots of Doom (1973), Gloucester Translations (1974), The End of This Side (1979), From Feathers to Iron: A Concourse of World Poetics (1987) and the posthumously published In the Analogy (1997).
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