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Monday, October 22, 2018

Mark Young - Meanwhile, in Ketchum, Idaho

Mark Young lives in a small town in North Queensland in Australia, & has been publishing poetry for almost sixty years. He is the author of over forty books, primarily text poetry but also including speculative fiction, vispo, & art history. His work has been widely anthologized, & his essays & poetry translated into a number of languages. His most recent books are Ley Lines & bricolage, both from gradient books of Finland, The Chorus of the Sphinxes, from Moria Books in Chicago, & some more strange meteorites, from Meritage & i.e. Press, California / New York.

He is the editor of Otoliths.

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Meanwhile, in Ketchum, Idaho



"I get a shotgun & load it"

intent! now present: no way for blanks, or failed loads.

Need much more, want extras, want action, an end to cares.

Become, try to become; not a failure but a spectacle!

One farewell to arms, obverse


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"        shotgun          "

      !     present: no         blanks,                .

          more,      extras,            , an end         .

Become,              ;                     spectacle!

    farewell        , obverse


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"                         "

      !            :            blank ,                .

              ,            ,            ,                .

      ,              ;                              !

                    ,   verse


*****


"                        "

      !            :                  ,                .

              ,            ,            ,                .

      ,              ;                              !

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