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At S M is a very short song lyrics post.
It came to me during my sleep time.           
                                           
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I sometimes go to another blog on a whim,
and I often find something meaningful to me.   
That happened today at Noah Cicero's, Loren  
Webster's, and Mark Wallace's.  Wallace had
a post I left a fairly long comment beneath.
His post is: 
Michael Theune on Third Way Poetics              
and my comment is the fifth one.                
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 Third Way does not qualify as a movement.
 It may qualify as a category name for a   
 poet who does not wish to be associated   
 with any coterie and with coteries whose
 members contend their poetics keep them    
 outside of accepted historical movements.
                                               
 Michael Theune obviously knows more about    
 contemporary poets than many of us do,    
 and I think it would be good if he pro-  
 vided a list beyond what he has provided  
 here.                                       
                                          
 Such a variety of approaches to language   
 occurred in the 20th Century that many      
 now feel free to do as they please.          
                                          
 Several days ago Joseph Hutchison placed       
 a link to D. A. Powell in a post on his    
 blog.  I knew of Powell before his ap-  
 pearance at Harriet, but I hadn't seen  
 a photo of him nor read a biography of  
 him nor read an essay on poetics by him.
 All these are at AAP.  The photo has a   
 haunting quality, the biography explains   
 the photo, and the essay substantiates    
 the biography.  It is a fine essay.  I  
 was most struck by Powell's simile/         
 metaphor/metonomy reasoning: each thing   
 is its own thing; no thing is another   
 thing; no thing is like another thing.    
 This is why simile and metaphor have/  
 lost the power they once had.  Does    
 this place him closer to the so-called   
 Language poets?  Can't say.           
                                        
 What I can say is that the technologies
 created by humans/ moved the experiences
 of the everyday away from simple unities  
 and toward more complex atomizations.    
 Now we get such questions as:  "Is God   
 a mathematician?"  Better stop before I  
 disappear over a cliff.                  
                                             
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A response from one Jordan Davis to me  
regarding the capitalism part of my #70   
comment at Kasey S. Mohammad's Lime Tree
showed up in the stream there.  It is a  
good response.  I knew I might get in   
trouble over it.  Tomorrow I'll try to  
respond back.                             
                                         
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AAP means American Academy of Poets.   
D. A. Powell  
A link to his essay is on the right.          
                                        
                                           
                                          
                                                
                                        
                                       
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