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...from Entrails #1. This was just reprinted by Inequity Press.
There is a poem that is titled 2-ezra-buk. It is printed exactly as the manuscript was sent. I am convinced that this is really page 2 of a poem and that the poem is not really called 2-ezra-buk. Although it starts out and reads like a complete poem, the 2-ezra-buk in the upper left corner makes me believe that page one is missing. I searched the database for poems that have the name EZRA in it and have ruled out:
Well, Now That Ezra Has Died
Ezra's Pretty Tough
Hey, Ezra, Listen to This
Now, Ezra
Here is the first stanza of this poem as it was published:
tomorrow there will be a letter in the mail
from a man in Denver. he will tell me
that I am very close to
Rimbaud. and he will be
right:
Rimbaud is
dead.
My theory is that the full poem was sent to the editor, Gene Bloom, but that somehow page 1 was lost and not published. Page 2 reads as a complete poem, so it is not obvious, unless you have seen a bunch of 2 page Buk manuscripts and know that this is the way that he marks page 2...
Any thoughts? Anyone know where to find the complete poem and put a true name on it?
Bill
There is a poem that is titled 2-ezra-buk. It is printed exactly as the manuscript was sent. I am convinced that this is really page 2 of a poem and that the poem is not really called 2-ezra-buk. Although it starts out and reads like a complete poem, the 2-ezra-buk in the upper left corner makes me believe that page one is missing. I searched the database for poems that have the name EZRA in it and have ruled out:
Well, Now That Ezra Has Died
Ezra's Pretty Tough
Hey, Ezra, Listen to This
Now, Ezra
Here is the first stanza of this poem as it was published:
tomorrow there will be a letter in the mail
from a man in Denver. he will tell me
that I am very close to
Rimbaud. and he will be
right:
Rimbaud is
dead.
My theory is that the full poem was sent to the editor, Gene Bloom, but that somehow page 1 was lost and not published. Page 2 reads as a complete poem, so it is not obvious, unless you have seen a bunch of 2 page Buk manuscripts and know that this is the way that he marks page 2...
Any thoughts? Anyone know where to find the complete poem and put a true name on it?
Bill