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| (c) 2008 Porter Daryl |
| Fiction rated K, some K+ (about) |
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| circa. 2008 |
| Works: Previously featured poems. Weed's Epistle Guestbook Feel free to add comments, criticisms, or suggestions about my poetry here, or any of your thoughts about poetry in general. Also feel free to add your own original poem if you'd like. Sign Guestbook View Guestbook |
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| Other official contact: porterdarylpoetry (at) yahoo (dot) com Ask permission before reposting. Thank you. |
--Porter Daryl (2008) |
| July 23, 2008 |
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| Comments: "Work on "Sprawl" is still underway. My first volume of poetry, it attempts to tie together the influences of pastoral New England romanticism-- Robert Frost, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Emily Dickenson--with the urban post-modernism of Beat poetry--Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Alan Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and William S. Burroughs. It also blends east and west--from influences of Blake's lyricism to Dgen or Issa in haiku. |
| It is very contextual, environmental, and sometimes topical, in very much the same way Frost was (who has earned his right to be called a New England poet). It is also introspective as it is observational, and all around metamorphical. It is a conceptual work as well. Corso's monumental "Bomb" was a large influence. I sing the praises of mankind's devotion to the suburban sprawl, going back to the old roots and stomping grounds of my childhood. What I enjoy is the childlike perception of nature and modern society's dual uglyness and beauty--that post-modern romanticism." --PD |
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