n. The sound of five hundred blackbirds rising from a wheatfield in Kansas or any wheatfield near Kansas.
“The ecstasy of having feasted and the wangeroot of their black tornado blur, a whirr that stirred the cowering crickets from their active trance and into the dance of pure, empowering safety, miming in motion their core of complex relief. . . .” Some Mathematical Configurations of Flocks. Stem Tighter Shape. 1968.
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Red Dragonfly Press, 2009; 448 pages; $23
Postings of words and definitions imagined by Sid Gershgoren and published in The Extended Words: An Imaginary Dictionary (Red Dragonfly Press, 2009)
Now Available—The Extended Words (the book)
Red Dragonfly Press, 2009; 448 pages; $23
Biography
Sid Gershgoren grew up in Los Angeles and first started to write what he calls "real" poetry his last year of high school, when he met Thomas McGrath, "who got me on the right path to language", he says. He's published five books, including Past Rentals, The Wandering Heron, and Symphony (all through Red Dragonfly Press) and has published widely in various magazines and anthologies. He is currently writing villanelles, a complex poetic form introduced into England in the Renaissance. Up to this time, he has written more than 190 of them and will probably continue "in this madness" for "a little while longer. At last count he had approximately twenty unpublished manuscripts, including several volumes of haiku, a novel for juveniles, a book of curses, and a few more volumes of poetry. He intends to continue in this same vein of verbal madness.
Sid Gershgoren
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