Word: loewinsohn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Judges were C. L. Barber, dean of Humanities at the University of California, Santa Cruz; Ron Loewinsohn, a poet who has just published a book of collected works entitled Meat Air; and Joanne Dempsey, a tutor in English...
...reading Loewinsohn can be every bit as satis??? as eating a roast beef special. Just be careful. Meat Air doesn't always stick to your bones...
PEOPLE HAVE, of course, been writing graffitti ???out pissing and fucking for years without giving ???damn about the use of the objective correlative ??? the integration of form and content. But Loewinsohn's poetry, in spite of its apparent nonchalance. ??? subtly crafted and conceived. In "Meat Air." the title poem of the new collection, he describes what ??? calls the "cohering center" of his work...
...best poems are those which satisfy both the ??? "to make the word flesh," as he puts it, and ??? hear the body talking," In their delicate physi???, these poems are also some of the most per??? in the collection. For if Loewinsohn's poetry ??? reads like conversation, these are the poems ???ant to be spoken in whispers...
...every one of Loewinsohn's poems stops as ??? as a motorcycle on a dime. Some details are ???palpable as chunks of gristly meat: "a high ???ing/ of that attentuated stream of urine/ ???st the porcelain." Other details hang with the ???iness of hot air: "The sink full of dishes. ??? will have to be washed...