Robin Blaser
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there are shining masters
when I tell you what they
look like some of it is
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let me get the vocabulary of this song
right—the curious happiness of poetry—
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The wind hits and returns it is easy to personify
a new place and language, but the new body stings
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The absence was there before the meeting the radical of
presence and absence does not return with death's chance-
encounter, as in the old duality, life or death, wherein
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It is their way to find the surface
when they die.
Fish feed on fish
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The poets have always preceded,
as Mallarmé preceded Cézanne,
neck and neck that was no
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so it is death is the
condition of infinite form—
the rebellion of particulars,
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There is no saluation. The
harvesters with gunny sacks
bend picking up jade stones.
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Often, I write on top of the
stove's hotplates—elements?—
and leave the notebook there
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How sad I am. How sad
this violation of the existential
given and Matthew's song —
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Robin Blaser Biography
Robin Francis Blaser (May 18, 1925 – May 7, 2009) was an author and poet in both the United States and Canada. Born in Denver, Colorado, Blaser grew up in Idaho, and came to Berkeley, California, in 1944. There he met Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan, becoming a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance of the 1950s and early 1960s. He moved to Canada in 1966, joining the faculty of Simon Fraser University; after taking early retirement in the 1980s, he held the position of Professor Emeritus. He lived in the Kitsilano neighborhood of Vancouver, British Columbia. In June 1995, for Blaser's 70th birthday, a conference was held in Vancouver to pay tribute to his contribution to Canadian poetry. The conference, known as the "Recovery of the Public World" (a phrase borrowed from Hannah Arendt), was attended by poets from around the world, including Canadian poets Michael Ondaatje, Steve McCaffery, Phyllis Webb, George Bowering, Fred Wah, Stan Persky and Daphne Marlatt; and poets who reside in the United States, including Michael Palmer and Norma Cole (who was born in Canada, subsequently migrating to San Francisco). Blaser was also well known as the editor of The Collected Books of Jack Spicer, which includes Blaser's essay, The Practice of Outside. The 1993 publication The Holy Forest represents his collected poems to that date. In 2006, Blaser received a special Lifetime Recognition Award given by the trustees of the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry, which also awards the annual Griffin Poetry Prize. Blaser won the Prize itself in 2008.)
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The Truth Is Laughter 10
one should never play martyr
there are martyrs beyond you
one should never argue apocalypse
without your whole lifetime before
you, which is impossible
Pushkin said, ‘my sadness
is luminous'—this is
his reason
Ralph flew to Bristol to see her
she said, ‘You're not in touch with
Eternity'
he said, ‘Gee, that's true,'
then later sent a telegram,
‘meet me in Jerusalem,'
since he was going
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5/3/2024 10:05:41 PM # 1.0.0.1119
Went out with Robin in London in 1966. I have 2 of his soft covered poetry books. The Moth Poem and Les Chimeres. Both very interesting. Regards Bennie, ,