Reddit reviews The Best of OC Poetry: Years 1-3

Mine:

Somewhere a Raven is Dreaming, $10
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A Soul in Baker's Dozen Pieces, $5
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Kick and the Cheese Warehouse, $5
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Mine and others:
The Best of OCPoetry, Years 1-3
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I believe the role of the modern poet to be much the same as the modern comedian or comic artist, albeit in a different format - which is to say or write in a way that is societally relevant and/or essentially forces someone to use their brain.

Starting out, I imitated Robert Frost, Robert Browning, and William Blake.

I want to be more like James Elroy Flecker (when it comes to use of meter), Brenden Norwood (the guy keeps coming up with these brilliant images that I wish I thought of first), and LF Call (an unending wellspring of creativity. I mean those birdsong poems, mein Gott...). There's plenty more, including the rest of the team here, but those are who come to mind at the moment.

The most recent thing to inspire one of my poems was playing Taps at a military funeral - not just hearing it over a loudspeaker at night, or even hearing a bugler play it as I watch the casket get loaded on the plane, but being the one to play it - the cold metal, the shifting light, the family and me both trying to keep it together, the whole experience.

>The Poets of Reddit: The Best of OCPoetry Years 1-3 $5.14, 186 pgs, softcover




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