4 Comments

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   Nancy

   June 13, 2011 at 3:40 pm

   Norb-Thank you for your posting of Markowski’s poems-Walt Whitman American English language and Basho form-a delightful combination! You are a master at bringing this poetic to our attention. Keep looking and we’ll keep discovering.
   A Reader
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   Phil Hansotia

   June 19, 2011 at 3:52 pm

   Dear Norb, Ed Markowski is indeed challenging. Haiku, as I understand it, is meditative poetry, with a conscious observation followed by an intuitive/subconscious response. I feel like a Barbarian at the gates of Rome, when I say, that I find Markowski mostly obscure or difficult to appreciate. — because it is expressed through a missing linkage?Its either my pure naivete or the Barbarian at the gate–both would be accurate. Thanks, Phil Hansotia
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   Bruce Hodder

   June 19, 2011 at 6:43 pm

   Fabulous. The silences between words are incredibly important in poetry, especially this sort, of course. And it’s easy to get that Basho form wrong. Ed doesn’t.
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   Dylan Tweney

   June 26, 2011 at 5:38 pm

   Thanks for posting these, Norb. Ed Markowski is one of the true masters of American vernacular. I don’t know anyone who plumbs the depths with such regular-guy language as deeply as he does, or as entertainingly.