my favourite hank poem
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mjp
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It's a good one. Though I'd like to see the Epos version, to read the original language he used. Assuming it was changed, which we kind of have to assume, all things considered.
And if I may pick a nit (that's why we're here, after all), he was 36 when he attended that class (which he didn't necessarily want to be in - it was his wife's idea), and about 40 when he wrote the poem about it.
I don't know how much his age, at the time of the class or at the time he wrote the poem, had to do with the tone of it though. It's pretty typical of his outsider/look-at-the-young-people poems. I get the feeling he could have written the same thing in 1945 or 1985. Or 2015, had he lived to be 100.
And 50 is the new 30, by the way, so don't feel too bad.
And if I may pick a nit (that's why we're here, after all), he was 36 when he attended that class (which he didn't necessarily want to be in - it was his wife's idea), and about 40 when he wrote the poem about it.
I don't know how much his age, at the time of the class or at the time he wrote the poem, had to do with the tone of it though. It's pretty typical of his outsider/look-at-the-young-people poems. I get the feeling he could have written the same thing in 1945 or 1985. Or 2015, had he lived to be 100.
And 50 is the new 30, by the way, so don't feel too bad.
Seeing this, I pulled down my copy of EPOS, A Quarterly of Poetry from 1962, but it's not in there. I looked in the database and the Epos Issue/Volume numbers don't match those on my EPOS, A Quarterly of Poetry (which you have in the timeline and DB as Poems and Drawings, which makes some sense since that also appears on the cover). How does Epos relate to EPOS, A Quarterly of Poetry, if at all?
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mjp
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They are one in the same. He was in 12 issues from 1959 to 1970.
It's listed as Poems and Drawings and not EPOS Poems and Drawings for the same reason something like Legs, Hips and Behind isn't listed as Wormwood Review Legs, Hips and Behind. Even though that's what it really is.
They give the "special issues" of these magazines that are devoted to a single author titles as if they were books, and that's just the way it goes I guess. I don't personally think an issue of a magazine devoted to a single author qualifies as a book, but bibliographers seem to disagree.
mjp
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I realize that addition and subtraction aren't exactly advanced mathematics, but when you know as little as I do about the subject, it's all the same.
Seeing as he probably wrote it in 1960 (or earlier) it's unlikely we'll ever see the manuscript. Unless it pops up in an auction one day.
It's apparently in the Summer 1961 issue, vol. 12 no.4. Available from Derringer for a mere $200.
I'm 51, look about 60, feel like 70 and have the maturity of an 8 year old. So I guess that makes me about 189 all in. Yeah!!!!
I'm 51, look about 60, feel like 70 and have the maturity of an 8 year old. So I guess that makes me about 189 all in. Yeah!!!!
