Poetry Grand Slam Finale : Collection by Award Winning Poet Alan S. MacDougall

by Macdougall, Alan Scott

• ISBN13: 9781884898099
• ISBN10: 1884898092
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Eden Pub

Summary

Poetry Grand Slam Finale presents the dazzling gifts of traveling poet, Alan MacDougall, whose poetry readings held audiences in thrall with his high energy, brilliance of mind and dramatic flare. A teacher of mathematics, history and languages, Alan MacDougall traveled America almost constantly for thirty years performing and gathering inspiration. His blending of art and life experience, plus his gift for foreign language translation (nine languages), set him apart in poetry circles as totally unique.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Poet dreams of Light	p. 1
Incidental Music
Across Time	p. 2
Finding Your Breath	p. 2
Morning Gold	p. 3
Quasimodo's Mirror	p. 3
Downed Aviator	p. 4
School's Out, unpaid Bills	p. 4
Burnout	p. 5
Julie	p. 5
To love without a mask	p. 5
Soft-nosed Departure	p. 6
Regrets	p. 6
Crossfire	p. 6
Untitled (Pied Piper)	p. 6
Women's Lib	p. 7
Stepping Stones	p. 7
Balancing	p. 7
Exchange of Gifts	p. 7
The Moment	p. 8
Betrayal	p. 8
Poetry fragments of a Lost Love	p. 9
World	p. 9
Star brite	p. 10
Call	p. 10
Clumsy Hands	p. 10
Coming out of the Orange Room	p. 10
Mirabeau Bridge	p. 11
Time's Pain	p. 11
Untitled (doors ajar)	p. 12
Rain Houses	p. 12
All Hallows	p. 12
Advice to Gary P	p. 12
Lazy Sue	p. 13
Mealtime	p. 13
Pollen	p. 13
Cathy	p. 13
Letter to Julie	p. 14
Dawn Star	p. 14
Kirk Creek	p. 14
Cupid Speaks	p. 14
Kali	p. 15
April--New Love	p. 15
Three for Leonard and Tracey	p. 16
Ragged Point	p. 16
The Insult	p. 17
Eros	p. 17
M.I.T. Airline Hostess	p. 17
Rondo Conclusivo	p. 17
Erotica	p. 18
Voices	p. 18
Two Years	p. 18
The World You Want to Live In	p. 19
Be Blue	p. 20
Stewardess Otter	p. 20
Untitled (spaceship)	p. 20
Passage	p. 20
Ginger	p. 21
Groovy Blake	p. 21
We are all...	p. 21
More shrapnel	p. 21
Set-up	p. 22
There'll Be Faces that You Enter	p. 22
Making A Move	p. 22
The Lock Man	p. 23
Broken Vase	p. 24
On the First Day of October	p. 24
Gene pool in danger	p. 24
Redeem the Time	p. 25
Untitled (first ocean)	p. 25
Preparing	p. 25
Questioning All
Ethnic Folkways Record	p. 26
Plea Bargaining	p. 26
Same Old, Same old...	p. 27
Incidental Music	p. 27
Tempest at Dawn	p. 28
I see in your clear face, My Lord	p. 28
Dream sleep	p. 28
Cannon Falls	p. 29
Kharma Studies	p. 30
Religio	p. 31
A passing breath	p. 32
Message-wise	p. 32
Missing Person	p. 32
Lesson	p. 33
(rebirth)	p. 33
Untitled (be kind, go slow)	p. 33
Elf Love	p. 34
Going Upward	p. 35
Quixote Considers	p. 36
Untitled (the one that got away)	p. 36
Traveling Across America
Poise	p. 37
The Good Spirit	p. 38
Vive la difference!	p. 38
Connection	p. 39
Hitting Highway 94	p. 39
The Spectrum	p. 40
Untitled (pulse slow)	p. 40
Driving to Work	p. 40
Highway 46 above the coast	p. 41
Tempest at Dawn	p. 41
From Burger King	p. 41
Survival breath	p. 42
Texas skies	p. 42
Flight	p. 42
Chant the Breeze	p. 42
Shrapnel (l)	p. 42
The story untold	p. 43
Recycling?	p. 43
Setting up for Business	p. 44
Easy Action	p. 44
Greeting	p. 44
Message	p. 44
Going through the Zones	p. 45
A Name	p. 45
Running	p. 45
Possibilities	p. 46
Sighting	p. 46
Buffalo Men	p. 47
Sand	p. 47
Autumn Walk (Salem)	p. 48
Counterclock, Vanishing	p. 49
Slow Orpheus	p. 49
Reconciled	p. 49
Dakota Autumn	p. 50
Television	p. 50
Sky Lens	p. 51
Blue Mounds State Park	p. 51
Skystone	p. 52
Mask	p. 52
The Wanderer	p. 52
The Model-T Poem	p. 52
Upper Mississippi Mosquito Bite	p. 53
I. D.	p. 53
The Prayer	p. 54
Bearing Light	p. 54
Art and Politics
Leaving Salem in the Autumn Rain	p. 55
Untitled (chance sweeps prophet)	p. 55
Familiar Territory	p. 55
Patterns	p. 55
Revolution	p. 55
The Wound in the Wind	p. 56
Artist lady, it is enough	p. 56
Untitled (life moves out...circles)	p. 56
Pedanticus talks to his frog	p. 57
Note to a missing Brother	p. 57
Tall Numbers	p. 57
Old dodges, old gold	p. 58
Shrapnel ii	p. 58
Price Structure	p. 58
Dinosaurs	p. 58
Turning Points	p. 58
Art and Politics	p. 59
Getting Drafted (1968), Telegram Arrives	p. 59
Democracy, Folksinging and Politics	p. 59
New Politics	p. 60
The Revolutionary	p. 60
Lines of Force	p. 60
Old Frontiers, New Frontiers	p. 60
DNA Questions	p. 60
Paradox	p. 61
The Invaders	p. 61
Reno, Vietnam	p. 62
Vietnam Memories	p. 63
Oedipus awakes	p. 63
Dinosaur Dynamite fizzles	p. 64
Prophet's Hat	p. 64
Dean Takes the Stand	p. 65
Hard Candy	p. 65
Bad Music	p. 66
Dope Raid	p. 66
Hippie Explains	p. 66
Pornography	p. 66
The case for conditional amnesia	p. 67
A Passing Breath	p. 67
Untitled (fragile agreements)	p. 67
The Poem	p. 67
October	p. 68
se reflete	p. 68
Time enough	p. 68
Enemy Games (Your car is bugged)	p. 69
The dream assembly line (Light Meat)	p. 70
Rejecting the Grosse Pointe Heritage	p. 71
The inner factories	p. 72
The doors opening and shutting	p. 72
Always in Autumn	p. 73
Sky Diver	p. 73
The Eleven Year Odyssey
The Bodhisttva Awakes	p. 74
Truing In	p. 75
"Take 'er down one!"	p. 75
String of Pearls	p. 75
Shovelin' hard, feelin'good	p. 76
Presentiment	p. 76
Sounding	p. 76
Breather	p. 76
Shadows and Stars	p. 77
Learning to speak Chinese with an Irish accent	p. 77
Quickly	p. 78
Torquemada Slumbers	p. 80
The Hunter	p. 80
Reaching	p. 81
Lesson of the Diving Board	p. 81
Quiet Man	p. 81
Collapsed Star	p. 82
Drifting	p. 83
Ghosts	p. 83
Passing under--Passing over	p. 83
Motown	p. 83
Passing Time on Steamboats	p. 84
Jazz Piece: Still Life and Dream Ticking	p. 86
Graffiti	p. 86
Turning the corner	p. 87
New Love's Channels	p. 87
Going into Winter	p. 88
Travel Time	p. 88
Lookout	p. 88
The Project	p. 89
Gary, Indiana	p. 89
Touring Houghton	p. 90
Approach and Departure	p. 90
Landing	p. 90
Monad	p. 91
Keep Moving	p. 91
Going to the Opera	p. 92
Lifeboat	p. 92
Night Watch	p. 93
Questions	p. 93
On the Afterdeck(1 A.M.)	p. 93
Elephants	p. 93
Huron	p. 94
Inside the Sapphire	p. 94
Fusion	p. 95
Suspended	p. 95
Ding-a-ling No Sale	p. 96
Tom's Boys	p. 97
The search for Perfection	p. 97
Day and Night	p. 98
The Deck is Secured	p. 98
The Hangover	p. 98
Music	p. 99
Too Late	p. 99
Color coding	p. 99
Pecking Order	p. 99
Tracks of the Gull	p. 100
Velocity, location	p. 100
Clearing Port	p. 101
The Philosopher's Overture	p. 102
Laugh, Clowns	p. 104
Need Woman	p. 104
Dungeons and Dragons	p. 104
Problems of merging	p. 105
Shearing Force	p. 105
Painting in Enclosed Spaces	p. 106
The LeBlanc estates	p. 108
Expelling	p. 108
11 June	p. 108
Lost	p. 109
The Vigil	p. 109
Buckingham	p. 110
Maxine	p. 112
Assembling the troops	p. 112
Sinking	p. 113
Learning Silence	p. 114
Popeye Recoils	p. 116
Time Voyage	p. 117
Transformations	p. 117
When Worlds Collide	p. 117
Surfacing	p. 118
The Mountain Stream	p. 120
The Bridge	p. 120
Afterwards	p. 121
Mandala	p. 121
Applause	p. 122
Going Ashore	p. 122
Alone	p. 122
Traveling	p. 123
Turned Every Which Way But Loose
Birthday	p. 124
(untitled)	p. 124
The Seagull as Appetite	p. 124
Xmas Shoppers Haiku	p. 124
Search for kindred spirits	p. 124
Echo Located	p. 125
Untitled (tug, pull, release)	p. 125
Death	p. 125
Untitled (making a fool of yourself)	p. 125
Oh, I will Name a Star for Him	p. 125
Time's Friends	p. 126
Sign	p. 126
Finding One's Place in the Universe
Grand Canyon Suite	p. 127
All Roads Lead to Las Vegas
Coming over Hoover Dam	p. 134
Guilt	p. 134
Sun in Rearview Mirror	p. 134
Chance meeting	p. 134
Paradise Postponed	p. 134
Rhythm and Blues of Las Vegas	p. 135
The First Monkey is cloned	p. 136
A Madhouse without Doctors	p. 137
Singles bar	p. 138
Playing the Long Shots	p. 138
Las Vegas	p. 138
Loner	p. 139
Purge	p. 139
Contrast	p. 139
World Card	p. 139
Middle-aged man sneaks look in mirror	p. 140
Untitled (poet)	p. 140
Untitled (no broken mirrors)	p. 140
For the impossible dream--	p. 140
State of the Art	p. 140
Power Structure	p. 140
Negotiations between bruises and song	p. 141
A small press review	p. 141
Soothsayer	p. 141
Election	p. 141
Epitaph	p. 141
Bus Poems - Live in Performance
English Translations of Favorite Poems with Alan MacDougall's Narrative	p. 142
Lermontov: I Come out alone ...
Garcia Lorca: The Moon peeps out
Charles Beaudelaire: The Albatross
Torquato Tasso: Now hear the waves murmur...
Rilke: Presentiment
Pushkin: It's time, dear friend
Rafael Alberti: The Good Angel
Paul Valery: The lost Wine
Fellini: The Infinite
Stefan Georg: The lord of the Isle
Boris Pasternak: Hamlet
Alberti: Poem from Exile
Apollinaire: Mirabeau Bridge
Michelangelo: I see in your fair face, My Lord
Rilke: Autumn Day
Yevgeney Yevtuchenko: Career
Rangavis: The Outlaw
Andrei Voznesenski: Goya
Greek National Anthem: Hymn to Freedom
Ungaretti: The Vigil
Martynov: They still fear...
Antonio Machado: Last night, when I was sleeping...
Charles D'Orleans: The Year has shed its cloak
Goethe: Wayfarer's Night Song
Montale: The Eel
Rosalia Castro: From the surging rumors
Pushkin: The Talisman
Charles Peguy: Farewell of Joan of Arc
Palamos: The Olympic Hymn
Victor Hugo: June Nights
Chaucer, Canterbury Tales: The Prologue
St. Francis of Assisi: Canticle of Creatures
Rilke: Oh, tell us, poet, what you do--
Bulat Okudzhava: Oh, you azure globule...
Alberti: If my voice...
The Grand Finale
The Problem Created by Intelligencev	p. 162
Author, Biographical Sketch	p. 164
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