Sunday, May 13, 2007

DPP7

THE DAILY POEM PROJECT, WEEK SEVEN

Here are the poems to vote for in week seven of my Daily Poem Project (the poems on Poetry Daily from Monday, May 7, to Sunday, May 13):

43. Central Canadian Verse, by George Bowering
44. The Meat Thieves, by Susan Wicks
45. Seventy Faces, by Richard Chess
46. Where Sadness Comes From, by Maurice Manning
47. Dear Blackbird,, by Jane Springer
48. The Vanishing Twin, by Sun Yung Shin
49. Snow and Wind Canticle to an Unborn Child, by Greg Delanty

The Rules:

You can send your vote to me by email or as a comment on the blog. If you want to vote by commenting but do not want your vote to appear on the blog, you just have to say so in your comment (I moderate all comments). In any case, I will not post the comments until after the final vote is in (secret ballot). Please vote by the number of the poem in the list above! Please make a final decision and vote for only one poem! Please VOTE BY THURSDAY, MAY 17!

Abstaining: If you read the poems but decide that there is no poem that you want to vote for, I would be interested to know that you decided to abstain.

The results of previous weeks are summarized in the post about the week 6 results.
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3 comments:

Bruce Loebrich said...

Here's my ranked list (my favorite is at the top):

45. Seventy Faces, by Richard Chess
46. Where Sadness Comes From, by Maurice Manning
47. Dear Blackbird,, by Jane Springer
48. The Vanishing Twin, by Sun Yung Shin
44. The Meat Thieves, by Susan Wicks
43. Central Canadian Verse, by George Bowering
49. Snow and Wind Canticle to an Unborn Child, by Greg Delanty

6:55 PM
Donald Brown said...

I vote for #46, Maurice Manning. Manning is oddly, quirkily brilliant. I voted for his first book in the Yale Younger Poets Series, and I heard him read from it and his second book. The poem here isn't as amazing as other things I've heard him read, but it sneaks up on you. The voice is so simply declarative but is speaking of something quite ominous.

The other poems this week left me cold. The first one (#43, Bowering, "Central Canadian") was amusing, sorta. The last one (#49, Delanty, "Snow Canticle") was very sentimental. There were a few good lines in Springer's "Blackbird" (#47), but it struck me as silly. The poem by Rick Chess (who I remember from ages ago in Jersey) simply overdoes what could've been a striking poem; the good parts, for me, get buried in the excess (#45, "Seventy Faces"). #44 "Meat Thieves," by Susan Wick is well written but not my cup of meat (neither are dancing kings or making haste). Finally, #48, Sun Yung Shin, "Twin"; yeah, ok, whatever, the "sane went insane" stanza strikes me as very trite.

7:46 AM
Anonymous said...

#45, Seventy Faces, by Richard Chess,
gets my vote this week.

-- dhsh

6:18 AM

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