GRATIS

I'm so tired of pushing my heart through the ringer. Asking for a review of my lost innards. Offering my flesh for a publicist's BBQ. Shrinking my brain cavity to fit on a saucer. Giving my books away to the intellectual garbage composter. Creating online islands of little or no response. Realizing my little local innovations were petty.The organized rushes have always rushed around me for good reason. Recognizing my output has always been for my input. I have thrilled I write for the fresh thought of it. The unknown revelations appearing strictly honestly. Gratis. Thank you for the most important thing in my life, the act of instilled writing, the welcoming it has always given me.

larry goodell /20Sep2024 /placitas, new mexico

MAKING IT 142 PAGES

Here are the pages of this '68 unpublished poetry "book" reproduced best I can in color. It is a one-only-book I made from work that year, and it was in a box attacked by bookworms (I’d left the 1960's folders in a box on a North room floor). I fastidiously cut out insect damage of  page edges that were on the bottom of the box where the worst harm was, and repaired pages by extending them out to where their edge should be. In doing this I found I greatly valued this 1968 creative work. The original is letter size, 3 hole bound with leather thongs.

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Full original text with embellishments. I include event poems MAKING IT and THE FOOL including procedure for performance, properties and contents. so that all my work from that year can be seen together. This book is available from Amazon.

The box poems I have done for many classes of students all the way from elementary school up. And I still have the box set, of course, and wonder what will become to it after I die. But it has had its use introducing students to the extensions of poetry possible in this world of restriction and containment.