Creative Cursing: A Poet's Disstionary

Dateline: 3/24/98

Poets Bite! And Daniel Zimmerman's got a word bead on ya. Following Corso's great re-invention of expletives not deleted in "Poets Hitchhiking on the Highway" (in Happy Birthday of Death,* the ur-text of Beat, New Directions: 1960), Zimmerman** floats word bombs that invite snortin' retortin' and gaffe-in' guffawin'. Poets' Advice to President Bill: We no Bomb! Drop Poems on Baghdad instead!

--Bob Holman

gluteal guru

crambo-ass

odious odist

panegyrical persiflageur

obsequious obloquist

ani-pest

terza reamer

ovine Ovidian

epiglam

figure of preach

ictus rectus

dicktyl

oral poet

can zone

--Daniel Zimmerman

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**Zimmerman's & lots of other bios are at Bob Grumman's Comprepoetica Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary American Poetry, a reference that's worth keeping an eye on.

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