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Maestro of Solitude - Robert Bonazzi
Maestro of Solitude
Other works by Robert Bonazzi
Prose
Man in the Mirror:
John Howard Griffin and the Story of Black Like Me
The Musical Erotic (novella)
Poetry
Perpetual Texts
Fictive Music
Living the Borrowed Life
Domingo
(with Carlos Isla and C.W. Truesdale)
Maestro of Solitude © 2007
by Robert Bonazzi
Cover image: Untitled, crayon on handmade paper (1964)
by R.C. Ellis, used by permission of RosamaríAa RamíArez de Ellis
First Edition
Print Edition ISBN: 978-0-916727-43-7
ePub ISBN: 978-1-60940-084-2
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bonazzi, Robert.
Maestro of solitude: poems & poetics / Robert Bonazzi. -- 1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-916727-43-7 (pbk.: alk. paper)
I. Title.
PS3552.O593M34 2007
811′.54--dc22 2007033346
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For Isabella
Muse of Memory
CONTENTS
From A Low Promontory
Coast
On the Verandah
Concerning Angels
Contemplating Photography
Shooting Star
Can’t Say Otherwise
Syrian Siren
Innocent Beauty
Angel Eyes
Point, Counterpoint
A Gadfly
Counting Grains of Sand
Cat Language
Clockwork of Ego
The Cruising Ego
Cantos of Particles and Waves
Self-Pity
Questions of Critical Mass
A Lucid Truthfulness
Jesus Wept
Every Tribe
The Only Genius
Tonight’s Facts
What We Do Not Say
With Your Taste
He Flaunts Hunger
Unframed Portraits
Call Me Roberto
Seedy Adolescence
Zero Celsius
The Great Silence
Stray Arrows from Chaos
Enigma Variations
Ways To Cross the River
Border Crossings
New York To Mexico City
Ravishing Solos
Opus Posthumous
Tranquility of Gray Moods
Cheap Reading Glasses
Still-Life
Aesthetic Epicureanism
Beginning With Cacti
Cactus Rose
Perhaps
Musing Moments
Shadow Play
Selective Spontaneity
Elevator Shaft
Attached To Place
Desert Religions
The Extreme Other
Being in Nothingness
Death and Solitude
Lonely For Solitude
Beginning With Words by Reverdy
Vallejo Died in Paris
Elegy For Lorenzo
At Table
Endless Scribble
Near Absolutes
Transcriptions For Isabella
The Empty House
Widower
A Cat Called Piccolo
Moon
Boiling Water
Evening
In Monument Valley
Solitary ÉAtudes
Maestro of Solitude
Essays in Poetics
Poetics As Self-Criticism
Story of A Poem
Words Blind With Meaning
Notes & Acknowledgments
About the Author
Maestro
of Solitude
Poems & Poetics
From A Low Promontory
Human consciousness is in perpetual pursuit of a language and a style. To assume consciousness is at once to assume form. Even at levels far below the zone of definition and clarity, forms, measures and relationships exist. The chief characteristic of the mind is to be