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Mark Scott, Poet | Other Works | A Suggestion for Making Poetry Useful
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A SUGGESTION FOR MAKING POETRY USEFUL. There’s hardly a good word for money to be found in literature. The poets and writers have been needy devils and thought to brave out their beggary by pretending to despise it. This shows what liars poets and literary people are. The chief cry of their hearts has never found its way into their books during the last three thousand years. 8212;John Jay Chapman. June 1, 2007). Web Site Design by.
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Mark Scott, Poet | Other Works | Animals for Life
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Traduced from André Breton and Philippe Soupault’s. Les Champs Magnétiques,. With help from Elizabeth Anglin. One day we found the remains of a building that had been a snake-pit or a monument to snakes. We didn’t cry. We didn’t care for the solar system. The day we did cry the women who knew us offered us their love. There was only death to thank for all the hugs and food they gave us. When the geese take flight late in the afternoon they do it quietly at first. Then their honking brings us out of d...
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Mark Scott, Poet | Other Works: Prose
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AN APPEARANCE OF VEHEMENCE:. WILLIAM JAMES ON WRITING, IMPERIALISM, AND REFORM. A SUGGESTION FOR MAKING POETRY USEFUL. NOTES ON WILLIAM JAMES. ON FINISHING THE DISSERTATION. PERSUASIONS WE HAVE KNOWN: A REVIEW OF GEORGE STEINER'S. FAILURE AS A STRATEGY. June 1, 2007). Web Site Design by.
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Traduced from André Breton and Philippe Soupault’s. Les Champs Magnétiques,. With help from Elizabeth Anglin. One day we found the remains of a building that had been a snake-pit or a monument to snakes. We didn’t cry. We didn’t care for the solar system. The day we did cry the women who knew us offered us their love. There was only death to thank for all the hugs and food they gave us. PERSUASIONS WE HAVE KNOWN: A REVIEW OF GEORGE STEINER'S. What is on George Steiner’s mind? Failure as a Strategy. The f...
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Mark Scott, Poet | Other Works | Failure as a Strategy
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Failure as a Strategy. What fresh paths for us, what world all before us once again—. Beyond these books and arguments that so engage us? The cigarette in the movie tastes better than the four I smoked in imitation. What charades the charades expose! What protocols the protocols require! Drugs did my growing up for me, some. It was a farce, though, like my baptism,. I blacked out first in a stadium. The face of ecstasy is always aging. Inhibitions disappear in rum;. The sandman comes on thermals. I stumb...
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Mark Scott, Poet | Other Works | Persuasions We Have Known
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PERSUASIONS WE HAVE KNOWN: A REVIEW OF GEORGE STEINER'S. What is on George Steiner’s mind? Exhibitionist memoirs. Slaughter in Eastern Europe. The Shoah. Electronic music. The Internet. Language. Heidegger. Creation. Shakespeare. Invention. Immortality. “At stake,” he writes near the end of. Yale University Press calls. The main question Steiner addresses in the book occurred to him in 1983, while writing the “Introduction” to. George Steiner: A Reader. Begins and ends with this question; but in 2001, th...
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Mark Scott, Poet | Bio
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Mark Scott’s first collection of poems,. Was published by New Issues Poetry and Prose in 2000. Will be published by Lumen Books in June 2007. His writing has appeared in. An on-line journal of the humanities (now defunct). He has studied and worked in England, Italy, and China. He lives in Omaha. June 1, 2007). Web Site Design by.
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Mark Scott, Poet | Links
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Nebraska Center for Writers. College of Saint Mary. REVIEWS OF ARTHUR MILLER'S. A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. Review: Powerful performances span entire cast of Miller's lofty 'Bridge'. June 1, 2007). Web Site Design by.
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Mark Scott, Poet | A Bedroom Occupation
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Mark Scott is one of our finest American poets. And here is, I think, his most challenging work. From the first sentence of. We are taken by a voice that is unsentimental and unafraid of the dark on a nighttime tour of solitude. Tricky language about the sticky stuff: this is bedroom-and-beyond talk from the past master, the rake, the raider, the witty and lonely rider; a bard's body work, least love's locutions. You have never read such confidences. John Donne, meet Mark Scott. On the page of this caref...
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Mark Scott, Poet | Tactile Values
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Dew-lover, we studied the laws. Of the elementary game with you. We set you up in a culture. You could multiply and be fruitful in,. A tapioca smooth as cream of wheat. You gave it a malt of oxygen and waste,. Like butter and brown sugar. You twitched, indiscriminately,. And out of your pantagruel. To keep from a failing grade—. I was more vinegar than you knew—. I cheated with your pepsin broth. That made my mouth secrete and quiver. I stole the notes of lab partners. Not even mine, grafting for myself.
