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October 28, 2009
- As my new book, DREW: Poems from Blue Water, was in production, I was very flattered to receive very positive feedback from poets all over the country. However, the once the book came out, I have received an overwhelming number of comments from both literary people and regular people, many of whom knew Drew personally, and some of whom witnessed some of the events recounted in the book. Here ...
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July 30, 2009
- Here is the pre-publication announcement for my new book:Negative Capability Press is pleased to announce the Pre-Publication Sale of DREW: Poems from Blue Water by Robert Gray!Get a signed copy of Drew: Poems from Blue Water for the discounted price of $16 with Free Shipping!! (Retail price will be $18.95)Hurry! Offer expires August 31, 2009!To order, go to ...
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June 18, 2009
- While I can’t yet post the front cover design for my upcoming book, DREW: Poems from Blue Water (should be finalized any day now, though), I now have all of the blurbs for the back cover, so I thought I would share them. All are from wonderful poets. I cannot express how honored I am to have received blurbs from Lorna Dee Cervantes, Nickole Brown, Terry Hummer, Bonnie Roberts, and ...
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May 12, 2009
- This is a new poem for the book project I'm working on, which is tentatively titled Jesus Walks the Southland.I hope you don't find it too offensive... the road to demopolisfor louie skipperi was on the road to demopolis to meet a friendat a barbecue joint he’d heard about when a voice ...
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May 6, 2009
- at least in this project... a way of happening there is a fear that poetry is dead that poets have lost their privileged place in the legislative functions of the world while this fear is not unfounded we must understand that poems will not endure in the speech or performance of the poet nor in the pages of a book they must survive among the intermediary spaces between mind and ...
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April 27, 2009
- Resident Beauty the work of the poet is to construct authentic beauty out of the artifice of language but such beauty doesn’t reside in what is visible it exists in insinuation in what is imaginable just as the magnificence of a landscape is no more in the brushstrokes of the artist than the splendor of a poetic line is in the stroke of the pen or choice of typeface beauty is about ...
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April 21, 2009
- From Cross to Empty Tomb two potential symbols for a movement destined to change the world the first stood as an instrument of roman brutality domination and death an object lesson for those who challenged imperial dominion the second one with much softer insinuations signified maternal love womb-like deliverance rebirth redemption and resurrection the first masculine the other feminine ...
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April 19, 2009
- Rilke and the Angelswhenever we speak with the angels rilke writes we should only tell them of common things those ordinary objects truly knowable to us i don’t often speak with angels nor am i concerned with things i prefer to provosculate upon how objects are mediated by perception so that seeming can give reality to being which then gives birth to saying for if we are here in order to say ...
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April 15, 2009
- Written Landscapes the world’s a poem that doesn’t rhyme it lacks a certain metric or sense of time our world is a string of endless signifieds generating infinite possibilities of meaning a textual fabric written and rewritten as it’s translated from perception to consciousness reading is reiteration mere reification of artificial constructs of the natural world wordsworth long ...
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April 14, 2009
- This poem was originally written a few years ago as part of a series of poems I did while working on my dissertation and was an attempt to grasp some of the complex theory I was using in my dissertation. I've decided to try to take the better parts of those poems and get rid of the more convoluted, pedantic parts in hopes of salvaging some things of value. The poem below is a distillation of ...
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April 11, 2009
- poetry is the act of finding music in the prosaic in the alliteration of the landscape in the enjambment of daily interactions and the metonymic semiotics of perception it dwells where image confronts thought where consciousness encounters the world as language it examines the meta-elements of the construct and its beauty resides in finding the façade in translating perception and emotion ...
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April 4, 2009
- once we forgot that all gods and deities reside inside the human breast we created a god in our image and confined him to imaginary realms and thus forgot the proper place and function of god is human communion then jesus came to tear down empiresand institutionsbuilt on our forgetfulnessand to write new worldswith imagination and love and so new institutionsbearing his nameand an ...
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February 16, 2009
- This is a poem I wrote for Valentine's Day last year, and while I thought it was scandalous and even bordering on tasteless (and that doesn't even count a couple of embarrassing puns...), it received a lot of favorable feedback from the people I showed it to. So I thought I would post it here.Enjoy, but proceed with caution... i want to make love to you with words overwhelming you with ...
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February 11, 2009
- I am well aware that the poem below does not adhere well to the rules of haiku, aside from the 5-7-5 format, but I'm okay with that... we base it all onartificial scarcityfood money whiteness
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February 6, 2009
- This is a poem I wrote for a grant project I worked on a couple of years ago. i will never forget the feelings of fear and anger and loneliness the vain attempts to nudge away despair or the shame imparted by looks of knowing strangers and even more so the horror of recognizing that even unknowing looks project similar perceptions strictly out of habit a rote paranoia nor will i soon forget ...
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