bblyblog http://infomonger.com/bbly/blog/ Bill Bly's weblog Sun, 14 Oct 2001 19:22:49 -0400 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en-us Observatory, La Paz http://infomonger.com/bbly/blog/ Many of the poems in Andrew Kaufman's Earth's Ends dwell on the squalor if not the suffering of the poor in Southeast Asia and South America. But in this one he presents, hauntingly, a different end of earth:

The Observatory on the Altiplano, Hours from La Paz

Just... Blytherings http://infomonger.com/bbly/blog/ After years of coaxing, my wife Deborah has finally been persuaded to blog. Rejoicing all round! It's called Blytherings: The blatherings of a Bly. Latest entry is a lovely rant on the coverage of the oft-postponed nuptials of poor Charles and Camilla got in the media. One gets a lesson... Myself http://infomonger.com/bbly/blog/ Andrew Kaufman's Earth's Ends won the 2003 Pearl Poetry Prize, and I'm just reading the complimentary copy sent to the rest of us who entered. Here's an exemplary poem:

Myself

"Write about yourself," the white-haired poet said,
bored with my toddler-beggars and drunk shamans,
with gods of orphans...