OntheWilderSide

from by my green candle

[begun June 7 07]

Last nite Buck Downs read with David Kirschenbaum @ famed St Marx Church. Kirsch, of Boog City fame, was the first reader. He is a purveyor of a sort of personal verse–he described his recent project as writing a poem at the end of the day about whatever went on that day. He then went back through these pieces, & seizing upon the common thread of references to the tv show The Gilmore Girls, read the makeshift sequence, to frequently hilarious effect. Unashamed of bearing the personal–not just emotion, but habit as well–his poems centering on the aforementioned show were particularly unique & interesting. This was preceded by a horseracing history longpoem that he described was in response to Elizabeth Willis mentioning Seabiscuit in one of her works (at the height of that horse’s moviestardom). This poem, though it dipped into the personal, recalling instances & events from years past, worked much differently than the Gilmore Girls work, almost as if it were an ESPN retrospective of the finer nuances of that sport, where people seem to watch the big 3 races almost perfunctorily but rarely seem to really get. Kirsch not only gets it, but was able to convey the feeling & meaning to tv-less, generally horserace-less me, which I qualify as an affirmed success.

 Related Posts:

• David A. Kirschenbaum reads at St Marks Poetry Project 6/6/07 video
• Kirschenbaum feature at Poetry Project 6/6/07
• Vox Pop’s Declaration of Independence: A Festival of Poetry and Music 7/6/ -7/8/07
• Welcome to Boog City: NYC Poetry and Music Festival 8/2 – 8/8/5/07

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