Ulamambri Book V

The conceited poet believes the entire world to be his poem.

The old Sydney, with its dim gas lamps, must have been a pretty

Love. He follows a photograph

in a vertiginous light.

Unburied, cast on the wide earth,

spoken of as a disporting of Love with itself; but this idea sinks

the leukemic cells from his blood. I mean to estrange the ordinary story

like spirits who pursue the dead,

see how these are used.] It means singular but not unique.

* This cento consists of lines from the following books:

Paradise Lost; John Milton  

Contemporary Poetics; Louis Armand(ed.)

Verse of Christopher Brennan;  Chisolm and Quinn(eds.)

Collected Poems; Kenneth Koch

Premonitions; Walter K. Lew(ed.)

The Cantos; Ezra Pound

Phenomenology of Spirit; Hegel (trans. Miller)

Lyric Postmodernisms; Reginald Shepherd(ed.)

Collected Poems; Francis Webb

An A-Z of English Grammar & Usage; Leech, Cruickshank & Ivanic(eds.)