THREE POEMS

THREE POEMS includes a reminiscence and imagining of my mother's life when she was young and later (M?dor: An Elegy); the poem Mother Tongue is a romp-satirizing with energetic language the purveyors and accomplices of lies rage aggression sedition uprisings illegality fanaticism and toadyism; Elegy is an interweaving of the story of a friend of my youth who died too young-a narrative in fragments that are interleaved with short passages from Ezra Pound's Cantos a book that my friend and I found dazzling strange daring inventive unpleasant very wrongheaded and (poetically/artistically) unprecedented.