Jody Azzouni

Jody's Notes

(December 24, 2012, 8:39 AM)

I just realized this. Really, I just did. (Just now, just this minute.) That in a way this poem anticipates the style of poem I generated in Hereafter Landscapes. Not entirely, of course, not in every way.

(I always have mixed feelings about this--really mixed feelings. On the one hand, I like the idea that I'm working out new stuff right now--that I'm not just recycling old maneuvers (ideas, styles, punctuation-techniques--whatever). On the other hand, I like the idea of being precocious: of coming up with something really early--when I was fifteen, when I was seven, when I was looking at adults, blinking at them from my vantage point in my cradle.)

(It's hard to have everything, especially when everything contradicts some of everything else.)