TO CREATE A WORK OF ART THAT THE CRITIC CANNOT EVEN TALK ABOUT OUGHT TO BE THE ARTIST’S CHIEF CONCERN

wary
tile feet

on the roof of doves

people turn to poetry when they have shit their pants
and
need them
changed

but

the current
crop
of
scops
has run out of
depends

that the patches
sloughed from the elbows of
professors
at this news

mr ashbery was a good poet

no one
will pick up his
brushes

again

Vincent Zepp about Vincent Zepp. Arriving at the time in history (including literary history) when I did. I was blessed to have such a rich tradition of poetry, art, music, and culture to available to me. This continues to allow my poetry to flourish in a rich loam of influences. The work I believe is representative of the best thoughts and intuitions of my generation of writers whose challenge is to move forward with the gifts given to us from previous generation of artists. From Ferlinghetti who opened my eyes to Pound and Eliot through the various significant literary and art movements of the 20th century. Then there was the haiku master Basho who showed us frogs leaping into the pond of our mind. John Berryman said our poetry should be something no one else could do. I’ve tried to focus on that idea.