TUESDAY'S POSTMODERN POETRY

Recently I read something by Alice Fulton in which she talks about Frida Kahlo as one of "poetry's darlings," one of those people referred to in boring poetry, as in when authors want to make a wink at feminism.




Frida Kahlo's not so bad, but a better wink to feminism is

AN AERIAL COLLISION.

Anyhow, Fulton says it best:
'a dizzying, mind-defying beauty, with enough neural complexity to make you feel both lost and found; the head notes, heart notes, base notes; the sweat-stained. a vision through tectonic shifts. I'd like a poetry of unnatural acts. '

Here are some tectonic shifts: