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One of the beautiful
things about poetry,

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to me anyway, is
the fact that it

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can make use of so many
materials, discoveries,

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accidents,
happenings, and things

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which are just lying
around in our culture.

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And I think it's one
of the beautiful things

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that poetry accomplishes today.

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That is, it calls
attention to the underside

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of the American soul, but
that converts it into poetry.

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I've always been
rather interested

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in accidental
poetry, found poetry.

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And I thought I'd start
the reading this evening

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by reading a few horrendous
examples of found poetry,

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from a book that I put
together with Robert Peters

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from the University of
California at Irvine two

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or three years ago, called
Pioneers of Modern Poetry.

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We were having fun looking
for non-poetry, which in a way

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resembled many of the
currents or tendencies

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in contemporary poetry,
and we came up with stuff

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that I think are pretty good.

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The material in every
case here is not

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invented by either Bob
Peters or by myself.

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We discovered it.

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The poems I'm going
to read to you,

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I personally was responsible
for the selection, the editing,

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the elations and the like
that went into making them,

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but nothing was invented.

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I'll start by reading a poem
from an early master of poetry

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who was hitherto
been unrecognized.

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F.W. Woll.

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W-O-L-L. The author of a
monumental treatise called The

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Silo, in California.

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Published in 1915 by the
California State Agricultural

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Department of Vegetation.

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[LAUGHTER]

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The Silo.

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The silo must be deep.

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The walls of a silo must
be rigid and strong.

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The stave silo is easily
built, but suffers

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from splitting along the seams.

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Brick or stone is preferred.

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Once sealed in the silo,
silage will keep indefinitely.

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Keep silage in the
silo level, then silage

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will improve as the
silo is emptied.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Beet tops are siloed in Europe.

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Other material mentioned as cow
peas, veggies, apple, pumice,

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sorghum, bagasse,
sugar cane tops,

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off vine shucked corn
and Hungarian grass.

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[LAUGHTER]

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The long saccharin,
sorghums, coffee,

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Milo, Federica, et cetera.

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[LAUGHTER]

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