This is a poet who was from the movement known as the Berkeley
Renaissance from the 40s ( a forerunner of the beat poets that was much
better, much tighter, lucid and meaningful) who dropped out of sight and
was forgotten for decades; recently a friend who's obsessed with hunting
down poetry journals of the time-- he reads them like they came out last
week-- located Everson as an old man, "rediscovered" him, organised
public readings for him and suddenly he's writing new poems that are
being published in all the major American journals. There is hope, poor
chap. This is from the New Republic website.
Coronado Poet
I am an old man who writes like the 40s.
My suntan is a period piece.
Young men then spent all day at the beach to avoid reality.
I stay upright.
Nothing makes me go down dusty roads to change my style.
I don't believe in love anymore, the foghorn blasted it out of me.
Jack Noble died of skin cancer, his life cooked out on the
sand...
in his coffin waves will break.
Between his knees sandcastles fight back.
How many bathing suits did he wear out
in 70 years?
Among the valleys of the distant waves
we will eventually meet. Hi Jack, I'll say.
Well it won't matter who got the superior tan.
The orange sun will recognize us. It owes us.
It will be the sun from nineteen hundred and forty-forever.
O no cloud in the sky! O ocean full of fish hiding!
The sun seduced us before we could be virgins.
Landis Everson
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