The Blind
See Only This World |
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The Blind
See Only This World honors the work of the
poet John Wieners. It takes its title from the last poem in his sequence
Pressed Wafer. In the biographical note Wieners wrote for Donald
Allen's anthology The New American Poetry he remembered, "I
first met Charles Olson on the night of Hurricane Hazel, September 11,
1954, when I 'accidentally' heard him read his verse at the Charles St.
Meeting House (Boston). They passed out complimentary copies of the Black
Mountain Review #1, and I ain't been able to forget." Many of
those in this volume, whether they encountered Wieners first in his Hotel
Wentley Poems (1959) or twenty-five years later in the two volumes
of selected Wieners Raymond Foye edited for Black Sparrow Press, can say
that they too ain't been able to forget. Wieners has lived for the past
thirty years in Joy Street on Boston's Beacon Hill. |
