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Submitted as entry to Homage To The Mad Diarist exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Fox mentions that there was a correspondence between Alan Ginsberg and da levy but levy was not published in a Ghost Dance magazine because he had committed suicide prior to its first publication. Sored with issues of Ghost Dance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents In introductory essays, Fox critiques the work of each poet included in this anthology and also writes a summarizing appendix. He reprints a statement from John M. Bennett about his poem BLENDER published in GHOST DANCE No.38, 1983. In an inquiry directed to explaining the poem BLENDER, Bennett responded. In general about my work I would say that it differs basically from mainstream American poetries in that it doesn't attempt to provide recipes for life or to conclude with "correct" moral postures, or to be in any other way didactic. My writing wants to be a life; complete and full of it all, a symbolic representation of the universe as perceived through my experience, my consciousness, and my writing itself.... BLENDER specifically seems to represent a transition phase between two styles of mine-from a kind of surrealist narrative toward an anaphoric style (one where the poems were structured around repetitions of key nouns or verbs in each phrase, or repetitions of short...

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In this book, Fox critically analyzes the poetic works of d.a. levy and his circle. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.