Poet's Model
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Come in please. I'd like you to pose for a poem. The title poem blurs the line between the solitude of written art and the more social realm of the visual arts. If you like the poetry of Robert Creeley, Frank O'Hara, Marianne Moore, and Alan Dugan, odds are good and you'll enjoy Poet's Model. The poetry in this collection spans more than half a century, and covers a wide range of subjects and moods. The poet's love of art pays homage to Henry Moore and Brancusi, as well as to the sensuality of the Venus de Milo. The grittier side of his experience comes to life in brawl, Juke-Joint and The Drunk. Delight in the humor (sometimes sardonic) of Spell My Name Right, Grant Applications and To The Judges, as well as in many of what the poet considers miniature takes. The common issue of Clutter causes it to be in demand at readings, while baseball finds voice in The Lasting Value of Diamonds. Depth, originality and perceptive insights are pervasive throughout the collection. Read these poems quietly to yourself, or read them aloud to another person, or to a room filled with people. Michael McGrinder is also a playwright: a deeply sensitive writer who entertains, even when it hurts.
Michael McGrinder
Michael McGrinder grew up in the South Bronx, New York City. He spent his early twenties in England where he was part of a vital poetry scene and acquired a taste for and an interest in theatre.Returning to New York, he lived on the Lower East Side and quickly became involved in the developing Off-Off-Broadway scene, so new at the time it was generally referred to as café theatre.His first production, a double-bill of one-act plays, was given life at The Playwrights Workshop. He then began showing his work at the legendary Old Reliable Theatre Tavern, located in the funky back room of a Polish bar in a dangerous section of the East Village. “It’s easy to find. Just turn left at the burning automobile,” and “No wonder we get such good crowds. Everyone’s afraid to come here alone.” His plays were also produced at such leading theaters as La Mama, Bastiano’s Cellar, The Playbox Studio and at The Library Theatre of Lincoln Center.He published Proscenium, a newsletter which The Village Voice described as “Off-Off talking to itself.” He also hosted a weekly cable TV show of the same name presenting excerpts from Off-Off shows and interviews with the production’s writer, director and actors. The show was later rechristened Michael McGrinder Presents to allow for an expanded format.Along with artists Judy Pendleton and Helen Lau, he was a founding member of Artists Rights Association, an organization devoted to securing reproduction rights and royalties for artists as well as encouraging artists to use copyright symbols on their work.Michael McGrinder’s plays have been published by The Smith, Breakthrough Press and Dramatics Magazine and by And/Or Books.His concern for the preservation of vital plays from the early years of Off-Off-Broadway led to his founding The Old Reliable Press, online as oldreliableprss.com.He has several projects in the works and has a growing list of books available through Amazon Barnes & Noble, Smashwords.com and many other online booksellers.
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Poet's Model - Michael McGrinder
Poet’s Model
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Michael McGrinder
Copyright © 2015 Michael McGrinder
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ISBN-9781310548246
Acknowledgments
I thank the editors of the following publications in which some of these poems have appeared:
ambit
And
Creations
frogpond
The Hillingdon Writer
Home Planet News
Hyn
Pivot
Proscenium
the sixties
The West Drayton Review
Some poems have also appeared in earlier books:
miniature takes
Tombstones
for Renee
CONTENTS
Poet’s Model
Spring
Clumsy Bird
(Is Lear Indebted To Job?)
The Lasting Value of Diamonds
Clutter
after a crisis
Allen Ginsberg/April 5, 1997
Revision
Juke-Joint
Catskills: Meditation On Magic Mountain
Chuang Tsu Remained Silent Until I Finished Asking:
Once It Was The Color of Saying
The Drunk
Family Albums
L
too close
Spell My Name Right
figurine
he bought
To The Virgins
reading
Today’s Sentence
Wisdom
Grant Applications
Zen Meditations
To The Judges
Condition Is Everything
Fooblop
brawl
cigarette?
Brancusi Kissed You
haiku triad
Venus de Milo
To The Gravediggers
Reflections
Curtain
Henry Moore
A Tenderness
Poem Written on an Envelope
Token Gesture
First Confession
Transition
The Signer at a Tich Nhat