http://www.rattle.com/poetry/2008/12/expiration-date-by-michael-bazzett/ Poetry for Everyone. Tue, 22 May 2012 20:06:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.rattle.com/poetry/2008/12/expiration-date-by-michael-bazzett/#comment-1035 Tim Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:37:17 +0000 http://www.rattle.com/blog/?p=271#comment-1035 That's a great way to put it, Jim, and my experience with the poem exactly. That’s a great way to put it, Jim, and my experience with the poem exactly.

]]> http://www.rattle.com/poetry/2008/12/expiration-date-by-michael-bazzett/#comment-1034 jim gorney Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:41:24 +0000 http://www.rattle.com/blog/?p=271#comment-1034 I really liked the direct address to, and engagement with, the reader. It sets up a meta-dialog that then provokes an actual dialog in response to the poem by the "real" reader beyond the level of the virtual meta-reader. It is in the tension between these two planes of discourse that the action of the poem takes place. Does not the tension and mystery between these two dimensions mirror the anxious tension of contemplating the mystery of our finitude? I really liked the direct address to, and engagement with, the reader. It sets up a meta-dialog that then provokes an actual dialog in response to the poem by the “real” reader beyond the level of the virtual meta-reader. It is in the tension between these two planes of discourse that the action of the poem takes place. Does not the tension and mystery between these two dimensions mirror the anxious tension of contemplating the mystery of our finitude?

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