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Henry Gould

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semi-good semi-gray poet. Born in Mpls, lived in RI 45 yrs, back home. New book, a Mississippi poem : GREEN RADIUS https://contubernalesbooks.com/green-radius1. Also : PARMENIDES IN MINNEAPOLIS https://contubernalesbooks.com/parmenides-in-minneapolis

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Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 52m

Reminder : prayer drafts will not be answered unless submitted through Submittable Draft Accounts [SDA]. Allow 16 yrs for ineffable response. – God, Senior Ed.

Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 1h

I was also kindly remembered by Kent in that beautiful book...

John Latta @lattaj.bsky.social · 1h

Out of Kent Johnson’s _I Once Met: A Partial Memoir of the Poetry Field_ (Longhouse, 2015).

Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 1h

I have a letter to the ed. on upcoming Mpls ward 2 election, in the Star Trib today (A section, p.8) replica.startribune.com/html5/reader...

Star Tribune

Star Tribune - 10/15/2025

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Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 12h

I plan & hope to keep doing them though. There are countervailing positive aspects, so as to reach people with my scrawny strings. It's sort of a rough-edged epic endeavor. And as an ancient mutt at my age I feel I can't afford NOT to gallop along this way, with Pegasus leading the winged reins.

Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 12h

I've started doing all these video readings from *Parmenides in Mpls* on substack (free, btw). & occurred to me there is an element of disenchantment : the mysterious otherness of the poem & its voice – often supplied by the reader's imagination – is partially revoked.[1/2]

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Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 17h

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

V. R. Lang, a Forgotten Queen Bee of Modern Poetry

A débutante, a burlesque dancer, and a poet, the shape-shifting Lang—who died at thirty-two—wrote some of the most aching, entrancing poetry of the twentieth century.

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Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 17h

Made me laugh (courtesy @newyorker.com )

Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 17h

Today I’ve recited 2 consecutive poems – seems like enough for one day! – but now I’m posting this third one, because it feels like the culmination of the three. All were composed in the first days of July last year (2024), and this one in particular, on the 4th. open.substack.com/pub/henryghe...

Verses for the 4th of July

poem # 9 from *Parmenides in Minneapolis*

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Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 20h

Poem # 8 from PARMENIDES IN MINNEAPOLIS : Odysseus
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Odysseus

poem # 8 from *Parmenides in Minneapolis*

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Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 21h

by the Sea of Minneysota

Lake Superior! Live! @lake-superior.live · 21h

Current* conditions near Silver Bay, MN:

Rotating view of Lake Superior from Silver Bay Marina. // Image captured at: 2025-10-14 16:32:51 UTC (about 16 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Silver Bay: 48.09 F | 8.94 C // Precip: overcast clouds // Wind: E at 4.809 mph | 7.74 kph // Humidity: 58%

Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 22h

In the US we have a constitutional right to freedom of speech as well as a poetic license to be a goofball.

Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 23h

Reading himself into poem #7, from PARMENIDES IN MINNEAPOLIS : Firecrackers open.substack.com/pub/henryghe...

Firecrackers

poem # 7 of *Parmenides in Minneapolis*

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Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 23h

Reading himself into poem #7, from PARMENIDES IN MINNEAPOLIS : Firecrackers open.substack.com/pub/henryghe...

Firecrackers

poem # 7 of *Parmenides in Minneapolis*

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Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 1d

We're entering festival time for robins around here. They get inebriated to a loopy degree on the little red crabapples, overripe & fermenting on the branches.

Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 1d

Gracias, Frank!

Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 1d

SWING SET (read aloud) open.substack.com/pub/henryghe...

Swing Set

a more recent poem (written today)

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Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 1d

SWING SET

Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 1d

What I like about Walt Whitman is his wide-open singing amplitude, his calm, his grace, his Franciscan attention to the beauty of everything small, lowly, natural.... all this gives great strength and fiber to his paean to democracy, equality... his epic poetry m.youtube.com/watch?v=0pGG...

Paul Leone (2024) Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed"

YouTube video by RobertHJacksonCenter

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Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 1d

"Hurricane Beryl" : poem #6 from PARMENIDES IN MINNEAPOLIS open.substack.com/pub/henryghe...

Hurricane Beryl

poem # 6 from *Parmenides in Minneapolis*

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Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 2d

The dying grey rabbit sat so still, on the backyard patio, for three days. Thinking, looking around. Not afraid of anything anymore.

Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 2d

If you follow close reading up to the vanishing point you achieve closed reading

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Lake Superior! Live! @lake-superior.live · 2d

Current* conditions near Two Harbors, MN:

View looking west of the Two Harbors Boat Launch into Agate Bay and Lake Superior. // Image captured at: 2025-10-13 12:18:14 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Two Harbors: 45.91 F | 7.73 C // Precip: scattered clouds // Wind: W at 10.849 mph | 17.46 kph // Humidity: 86%

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Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 2d

Made strong inroads in Academia Hollow & other neighborhoods

Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 2d

The root of the trouble (besides my own ego) was : I had a distaste for "Language Poetry" as a concept & and a cultural bandwagon. & I still do, to be honest. But I respect Silliman now & enjoyed his writing.

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Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 2d

Back in 90s I used to battle with Silliman on the Buffalo Poetics list, relentlessly, day in day out, on a ridiculous level of theoretical abstraction about the nature of poetry. I made many enemies that way. But when I finally heard him read in Providence, I thought, hey I like this. This is good.

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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 2d

"You are what you it." Thread here, deep chute.

Cute.

😎

J-T Kelly @j-tkelly.bsky.social · Feb 24

A couple months ago I read the first third of Silliman's Alphabet. Here are some notes I wrote while reading the first few sections:

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