Elaine Equi grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and attended the creative writing programme at Columbia College, Chicago. Together with her husband, the poet Jerome Sala, she was at the forefront of Chicago’s lively performance poetry scene in the 1970s. Her dense, often extremely witty poetry has been widely anthologised, and she has received nominations for the Los Angeles Book Prize as well as the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize.
Links:
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/elaine-equi
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/elaine-equi
https://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/tangen_mills_elaine_equi_8_1_11/ (interview, 2011)
My below poem took its inspiration from Equi’s minimalist style and her use of the serial organisation common in surrealist poetry.
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consequentialism
of all the things
a person
might do at any
given moment
fork coffee stirring
printing finger window dust
the morally right action
the use of language
with the best overall
consequences
quivering beneath
waiting for the sun
it seems easy to understand and
to be based on common sense
Well, yes. I don't drink coffee anyway, but had to check this out:
ReplyDeletehttp://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism/
Yes, absolutely! One thing I learned from Frodo: the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is always the best place to start.
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