Joanne Kyger - "The Insurgents" - "belligerent naked Indy stalks"
The Insurgents
Surging in like sea waves do
Not a revolution not belligerency
But an uprising rising up
Of focused nameless opposition
Keeps you very busy
Farewell, I must leave, bye-bye
“The insurgency is sophisticated
and stronger than anticipated…”
“My name is Isis” says a small child
“and that means Egyptian Goddess”
“No it means stupid dirty little girl”
says the California Secretary of Education
Constantly create the enemy
Constantly create the war
“I’m a war president, I’m a war president”
Belligerent naked Indy stalks
Completely without leaves
On a cliff above the high tide surging
In a huge gathering flow
Can you beat THIS into submission?
July 20, 2004
by Joanne Kyger, first published in Night Palace as issue #96 of Sylvester Pollett's Backwoods Broadsides series. Eco-buddhist poet writing from the magical hamlet of Bolinas, CA on the southern tip of the Point Reyes peninsula, slowly slipping against the grain of the continental plate, on a long geological slide to Mexico, Joanne's poetry offers a whimsical yet unflinching take on the world. Attentive mind.
Don't miss the 10 poems from 2003 posted by Michael McClure & Ray Manzarek which are quite topical. Linda Russo edited a Kyger feature for Jacket 11; check out the interviews and Russo's intro placing Joanne in the gender poetry politics of '50s San Francisco, as well as the articles by Anne Waldman, Andrew Schelling, Jonathan Skinner & others.
Author of over 20 books, As Ever: Selected Poems (Penguin, 2002) is readily available.
Surging in like sea waves do
Not a revolution not belligerency
But an uprising rising up
Of focused nameless opposition
Keeps you very busy
Farewell, I must leave, bye-bye
“The insurgency is sophisticated
and stronger than anticipated…”
“My name is Isis” says a small child
“and that means Egyptian Goddess”
“No it means stupid dirty little girl”
says the California Secretary of Education
Constantly create the enemy
Constantly create the war
“I’m a war president, I’m a war president”
Belligerent naked Indy stalks
Completely without leaves
On a cliff above the high tide surging
In a huge gathering flow
Can you beat THIS into submission?
July 20, 2004
by Joanne Kyger, first published in Night Palace as issue #96 of Sylvester Pollett's Backwoods Broadsides series. Eco-buddhist poet writing from the magical hamlet of Bolinas, CA on the southern tip of the Point Reyes peninsula, slowly slipping against the grain of the continental plate, on a long geological slide to Mexico, Joanne's poetry offers a whimsical yet unflinching take on the world. Attentive mind.
Don't miss the 10 poems from 2003 posted by Michael McClure & Ray Manzarek which are quite topical. Linda Russo edited a Kyger feature for Jacket 11; check out the interviews and Russo's intro placing Joanne in the gender poetry politics of '50s San Francisco, as well as the articles by Anne Waldman, Andrew Schelling, Jonathan Skinner & others.
Author of over 20 books, As Ever: Selected Poems (Penguin, 2002) is readily available.
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