A Sense Of Sumptuousness: A Found Poem Poem by Frank Avon

I have just finished reading the poems in Best American Poetry 2014. It's better than most of the volumes have been lately, for it contains a wide variety of poems representing a number of 'schools' of poetry. Two of the last poems are clear examples of postmodernism, one of them 'Emerald Spider Between Rose Thorns' by one Dean Young. My found poem is adapted from Young's notes on his poem; furthermore, his comments are the clearest (most logical!) explanation of postmodern poetry that I have yet read. It acknowledges - indeed, urges - fragmentation, logical incoherence, and the juxtaposition of unrelated items, as in a list.

I thought his comment itself has the rhythms, images, sounds, and phrasing of authentic poetry; so I rewrote it in lines and, thus, confirmed my first impression. Just one example: the phrase 'the full welter of life' is itself fresh and engaging, it also has a wealth of consonance. With the preceding and successive lines, it has a certain rhythm, and it leads (logically!) to the images of living as hopping, and poems as a series of landings and takeoffs. It is, in other words, an example of 'sumptuousness achieved.'

By the way, his poem, on which he is commenting, is far more coherent, unified, narrative, and conclusive than he would have you believe - and far, far more so than most postmodern poetry; e.g., 'Mindful' by Rachel Zucker, the final poem of the collection, which, with the help of intrusive jargon from podcasting, is very nearly gibberish. It definitely hops, reflecting the rush/rush/rush of life on the streets of NYC. I know this because that's what she says in her notes.