140 SHORTIES III

About the Book

140 SHORTIES III might seem to be positing, over and over, the possibility of magnificence in a relatively trivial and silly private format. That format not only includes relative brevities. It also includes clumps of titles that rhyme with each other and includes a rather special back-&-forth way of moving from one versification to the next.

The entire group of 140 pieces ultimately must be more of a verbal success than that same group ever could be any fount of real news or of anything like real 'info'. The following couple of examples might seem about averagely illustrative:

LIFT
Lift us above
hate and love.
We remain quiet
regarding life's diet
of infinite passions
in endless fashions.
Tending to sense
no recompense
worth much while,
I hereby style
toward neutral smile.

DRIFT
Drift upon drift
of new-fallen snow
has given us dreams.
A brave recalling
would be of scenes
seemingly lost.
Those scenes
would shine beacons.
Every shining
might seem
almost informative.

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.