Classic Blunder - After a noticeably happy day I sleep - and wake
at dawn to a sudden sense of having erred. What have I done? I've
made the classic blunder the blunder of living onward forwardly
toward some disappointing future - what a fool - I should have
lived not forwardly but sideways or circularly to stay in days like
(what now has to be called) yesterday. Instead I've allowed the sun
already to start pouring through the curtains the diminishments and
inferiorities of a crude and unsentimental next day. To keep that
train from leaving the station must call for some incredible level
of concentration. In his sixth collection, Mark Halliday continues
to seek ways of using the smart playfulness of such poets as Frank
O'Hara and Kenneth Koch to explore life's emotional mysteries -
both dire and hilarious - from the perpetual dissolving of our past
to the perpetnal frustration of our cravings for ego triumph, for
sublime connection with an erotically idealized Other, and for
peace of spirit. Animated by belief in the possible truths to be
reached in interpersonal speech, Halliday's voice-driven poetry
wants to find insight - or at least a stay against confusion -
through personality without being trapped in personality. History
will leave much of what we are on the threshing floor, Halliday
notes, but in the meantime we do what we can: let posterity (if
any) say we rambled truly.
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