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Description:5 SPEEDBy: Klyd Watkins24 Poems / 49 Pages / $6Published by The Temple Inc.Review By: Charles P. RiesWell regarded small press editor, publisher and poet, Charles Potts doesn'tpublish just anyone. So, why did he publish a guy named Klyd Watkins fromNashville, Tennessee? He told me, "I published Klyd Watkins' 5 Speed becauseit is poetry that deserves a wider audience and more attention than his workhas hitherto received. It has some things in common with the work of otherpoets I've published. For instance the absence of formal requirements otherthan musicality and pertinence allows the poet to focus on the substance anda style will innately be established. I promote poetry that has intellectualrigor, emotional resonance, and high artistic intent." Over half the poemsin this collection are either about or mention Watkins favorite place forpoetic reflection, Radnor Lake, Tennessee. About this Potts notes, "Moreparticularly I have learned the value of re-considering the same location,scene, or set of circumstances, under different or slightly alteredconditions, from Klyd Watkins. Different time of day, different season ofthe year, different frame of mind, yield mutually supporting butdistinguishable results, completing the view or poet's vision."Here is an example of Watkins reflections at Radnor Lake. This aconcluding excerpt from his poem, "Radnor Lake, Second Observation DeckJanuary 9 2000": "I think I am thinking this to justify / a description ofthe maple on the water / because reflection rules / here again today like itdid / the time the waves flipped my image and showed me / to the clouds. /Again my horizontal maple's / gone aggressive - leafless / this time -bobbing on the water. Its folded / wave whipped shape bounces hard as if /the waves are trying to throw form off the water / into flight / like somekind giant last cousin / to a water spider thrashing to spring free / ofmaple mambo on the water and rise / into dissipation's multiplication oflight."I asked Watkins to tell me about his writing process, in particular hisreason for spreading copy. He told me, "I like to be free to try any notionthat enters my mind. In doing that, I destroy the previous draft, and sincea lot of my impulses toward change turn out to be wrong, I need to be ableto backtrack. Since word processing files take so little space, virtuallynone, I save, or "save as," all the drafts. I'm one of those poets thatfights with punctuation. If I'm going for momentum, and often I am, a comma(in verse, not in prose) seems a conflict of interest, but you can't get ridof all of them. Despite all my revision, I agree that, when the muse isgenerous, the first thought is the best thought. I definitely write longsegments that I know better than to change." About his spreading copy hesays, "Pace is important to me. And when I get to rolling I tend to usecomplex syntax. I find that with complex syntax I can use very simplediction that works, and plays, really hard. I use lines, partial lines, thesweep of the eye, multiple margins, to control pace, and use pace (orattempt to) to help the reader thru the complex syntax. If the reader ishearing the words inside her mind at the right speed, the sentences may beinvolved but they are not hard to understand, I hope." This technique isused well in his exceptional eight page poem entitled, "December 31, 1999".There is a wise, whimsical center to these well crafted poems. It isapparent that Watkins not only has a natural grace for words, but is alsowell schooled in their use. He told me he received a BA and MA fromVanderbilt in English in the late '60's. I wondered whether he felt hisschooling helped or hindered his progress as a writer. "I don't know forsure. I suppose if I had been completely independent I should have droppedout of college to read and write full time on my own, supporting myself withsimple, part time work. I had two sons by the time I was twenty-two andprepared myself to support them. I not only studied, I taught. A decade at acommunity college in Kentucky. The classroom can be a wonderful place toread poetry. When you have three, five, a dozen, good readers going over atext together-John Dunne or William Carlos Williams or Chaucer-and they allget to putting their insights on the table, and the jocks or whoever may bethere only for credit begin to glean that there is really something there ofa value so energetic it goes beyond getting a grade, what's wrong with that?I had to turn down a fellowship to Iowa Writer's Workshop when I wastwenty-four and had three sons. If I had been able to go to Iowa, would Inow be even better or even worse?"These poems exude kindness and compassion - wisdom. I noted that many of hispoems are reflections, meditations on life - the moments before our gaze. Isuggested that he sounded a bit like a southern ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with 5 Speed. To get started finding 5 Speed, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 49

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Publisher: The Temple

Release: 2005

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Description: 5 SPEEDBy: Klyd Watkins24 Poems / 49 Pages / $6Published by The Temple Inc.Review By: Charles P. RiesWell regarded small press editor, publisher and poet, Charles Potts doesn'tpublish just anyone. So, why did he publish a guy named Klyd Watkins fromNashville, Tennessee? He told me, "I published Klyd Watkins' 5 Speed becauseit is poetry that deserves a wider audience and more attention than his workhas hitherto received. It has some things in common with the work of otherpoets I've published. For instance the absence of formal requirements otherthan musicality and pertinence allows the poet to focus on the substance anda style will innately be established. I promote poetry that has intellectualrigor, emotional resonance, and high artistic intent." Over half the poemsin this collection are either about or mention Watkins favorite place forpoetic reflection, Radnor Lake, Tennessee. About this Potts notes, "Moreparticularly I have learned the value of re-considering the same location,scene, or set of circumstances, under different or slightly alteredconditions, from Klyd Watkins. Different time of day, different season ofthe year, different frame of mind, yield mutually supporting butdistinguishable results, completing the view or poet's vision."Here is an example of Watkins reflections at Radnor Lake. This aconcluding excerpt from his poem, "Radnor Lake, Second Observation DeckJanuary 9 2000": "I think I am thinking this to justify / a description ofthe maple on the water / because reflection rules / here again today like itdid / the time the waves flipped my image and showed me / to the clouds. /Again my horizontal maple's / gone aggressive - leafless / this time -bobbing on the water. Its folded / wave whipped shape bounces hard as if /the waves are trying to throw form off the water / into flight / like somekind giant last cousin / to a water spider thrashing to spring free / ofmaple mambo on the water and rise / into dissipation's multiplication oflight."I asked Watkins to tell me about his writing process, in particular hisreason for spreading copy. He told me, "I like to be free to try any notionthat enters my mind. In doing that, I destroy the previous draft, and sincea lot of my impulses toward change turn out to be wrong, I need to be ableto backtrack. Since word processing files take so little space, virtuallynone, I save, or "save as," all the drafts. I'm one of those poets thatfights with punctuation. If I'm going for momentum, and often I am, a comma(in verse, not in prose) seems a conflict of interest, but you can't get ridof all of them. Despite all my revision, I agree that, when the muse isgenerous, the first thought is the best thought. I definitely write longsegments that I know better than to change." About his spreading copy hesays, "Pace is important to me. And when I get to rolling I tend to usecomplex syntax. I find that with complex syntax I can use very simplediction that works, and plays, really hard. I use lines, partial lines, thesweep of the eye, multiple margins, to control pace, and use pace (orattempt to) to help the reader thru the complex syntax. If the reader ishearing the words inside her mind at the right speed, the sentences may beinvolved but they are not hard to understand, I hope." This technique isused well in his exceptional eight page poem entitled, "December 31, 1999".There is a wise, whimsical center to these well crafted poems. It isapparent that Watkins not only has a natural grace for words, but is alsowell schooled in their use. He told me he received a BA and MA fromVanderbilt in English in the late '60's. I wondered whether he felt hisschooling helped or hindered his progress as a writer. "I don't know forsure. I suppose if I had been completely independent I should have droppedout of college to read and write full time on my own, supporting myself withsimple, part time work. I had two sons by the time I was twenty-two andprepared myself to support them. I not only studied, I taught. A decade at acommunity college in Kentucky. The classroom can be a wonderful place toread poetry. When you have three, five, a dozen, good readers going over atext together-John Dunne or William Carlos Williams or Chaucer-and they allget to putting their insights on the table, and the jocks or whoever may bethere only for credit begin to glean that there is really something there ofa value so energetic it goes beyond getting a grade, what's wrong with that?I had to turn down a fellowship to Iowa Writer's Workshop when I wastwenty-four and had three sons. If I had been able to go to Iowa, would Inow be even better or even worse?"These poems exude kindness and compassion - wisdom. I noted that many of hispoems are reflections, meditations on life - the moments before our gaze. Isuggested that he sounded a bit like a southern ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with 5 Speed. To get started finding 5 Speed, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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