222 FREE-VERSE **Bits**

About the Book

222 FREE-VERSE **Bits** only slightly may fail to be absolutely in any and every generally perceived as 'normal' tradition of modern Free Verse. The individual offerings are, on a sort of average, quite, quite brief. Rhyme definitely 'intrudes' sometimes, but Meter really and truly seems highly toward absolutely ruled out.

[[Some 'sample Matter' could be the following:

AMUSEMENTS
Favorite activities must
include a trip to the sea.
Other fun things embrace
jaunts to the movies.
Several of my friends
quaver like popes. When
the ocean is near, we
share the cardinal sin,
a bath.

PINK
From any angle the sky
may be seen as as roseate
as the approach of spring.
Under the hanging basket
I've sat and twiddled my thumbs.
Those have remained pink-
or at least as softly like
disorganized courtesy
as some tweeters may be.]]

About the Author

Bruce Hamilton, a rather solitary Californian, attended Yale College for two years. He assiduously has devoted most of his literary practicing to such basic pieces as limericks and sonnets. His recent ?literary hero? was and still is Jorge Luis Borges, toward whose pessimisms about language and literature he remains sympathetic.