by Warren Gaston | May 20, 2017
Posted on May 14, 2017 On a hill above Los Angeles I look out over a city of windows. This poem is barely a poem. It is a moment, a moment that produced a thought. The moment was the experience of looking out over the city from a home on Mountain View, a street on a...
by Warren Gaston | May 8, 2017
Poetry is hard. Modern poetry is harder. Why do we read modern poetry? The poem gives us an experience made out of words. In modern poetry the words are not given as straight forward information. The words shake and shatter. The words did-organize our model of...
by Warren Gaston | Feb 15, 2017
see the poem ‘Alfalfa’ published February 11, 2017. This poem is a trick, a deceit to lure one from the obvious to the obscure. The poem is not about alfalfa. It’s about language. It is not about alfalfa the grass. It is about alfalfa the word. More...
by Warren Gaston | Dec 26, 2016
Our everyday speech is salted and peppered with poetry. Swear words are poetry. They pour verbal gasoline on whatever linguistic fire we have started. Compare “I hate you” with “F . . . you”. Which has more emotional punch? Every time we use ‘like’ to compare one...
by Warren Gaston | Dec 20, 2016
Why use unfamiliar words, strange words, foreign words, words spelled with the Greek alphabet? To show off – right? Wrong. Not showing off – but showing out and in. -Showing out to see the interrelationships of words with each other. -Showing in to see the...
by Warren Gaston | Dec 12, 2016
The main thrust of the poem is the preciousness of life. These subterraneans have learned so much about life from death, the brevity, the preciousness. From the grave the dead now realize how precious life is, and how much of their lives they have spent on petty...
