Susan Bright
Library
No one is shouting here.
It is cool and clear and elegant,
a fine place for a nap.
The books I make fall into silence
here, disappear between slim
volumes in special collections.
At Stanford, in the old library,
I found 3 rows of pamphlets from the
17th Century, literary journals,
the First Small Press Revolution,
pamphlets full of gossip and essays,
news and poetry, stories and public
announcements, pamphlets full of life.
I was 19.
It pleased me that the printing press
took books from the monks and gave them
to anyone, poets, writers,
gossips, fools.
It pleased me to hold a pamphlet
300 years old.
Fly first insight into the power
of the Second Small Press Revolution
was that I got fired for giving
high school students an article from
the L.A. Free Press called, Student as Nigger.
The First Small Press Revolution grew into
a monster, a giant megapoloptic, celluloid,
international thing that fragments the word
and the power of those who create it.
I would like to know someone who has seen
those 3 rows of pamphlets from the 17th century.
I would like to wait here with my books
for innocence to come round again.
Page(s) 53
magazine list
- Features
- zines
- 10th Muse
- 14
- Acumen
- Agenda
- Ambit
- Angel Exhaust
- ARTEMISpoetry
- Atlas
- Blithe Spirit
- Borderlines
- Brando's hat
- Brittle Star
- Candelabrum
- Cannon's Mouth, The
- Chroma
- Coffee House, The
- Dream Catcher
- Equinox
- Erbacce
- Fabric
- Fire
- Floating Bear, The
- French Literary Review, The
- Frogmore Papers, The
- Global Tapestry
- Grosseteste Review
- Homeless Diamonds
- Interpreter's House, The
- Iota
- Journal, The
- Lamport Court
- London Magazine, The
- Magma
- Matchbox
- Matter
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Monkey Kettle
- Moodswing
- Neon Highway
- New Welsh Review
- North, The
- Oasis
- Obsessed with pipework
- Orbis
- Oxford Poetry
- Painted, spoken
- Paper, The
- Pen Pusher Magazine
- Poetry Cornwall
- Poetry London
- Poetry London (1951)
- Poetry Nation
- Poetry Review, The
- Poetry Salzburg Review
- Poetry Scotland
- Poetry Wales
- Private Tutor
- Purple Patch
- Quarto
- Rain Dog
- Reach Poetry
- Review, The
- Rialto, The
- Second Aeon
- Seventh Quarry, The
- Shearsman
- Smiths Knoll
- Smoke
- South
- Staple
- Strange Faeces
- Tabla Book of New Verse, The
- Thumbscrew
- Tolling Elves
- Ugly Tree, The
- Weyfarers
- Wolf, The
- Yellow Crane, The