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Regarding ULTRACONTEMPLATIONS

The last in the series of contemplative volumes of abstract poetry, ULTRACONTEMPLATIONS is comprised solely of upper-case monosyllabic words that have... (read more)

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Regarding SUPERCONTEMPLATIONS

Written some eight years after CONTEMPLATIONS, this mixed-case volume of abstract poems entitled SUPERCONTEMPLATIONS takes the contemplative approach ... (read more)

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Regarding CONTEMPLATIONS

This three-book volume of abstract poems represents a marked leap forward from the readerly poems of ABSTRACTS, the first attempt at poetic abstractio... (read more)

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Regarding ABSTRACTS

ABSTRACTS is the only readerly collection of so-called abstract poems from John oLoughlin, most of whose poetic works are either rhymed, in free verse... (read more)

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Regarding EVOLUTION

EVOLUTION is the only collection of prose poems from this prolific author, all of which would indicate, with their philosophical bias, a considerable ... (read more)

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Regarding TREES

More  philosophically advanced than THE MODERN DEATH, the poems in TREES bring to a conclusion a process of de-poeticization which the author first e... (read more)

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Regarding THE MODERN DEATH

The sequel to SPIRITUAL INTIMATIONS, this collection of some forty-four non-rhymed poems represents a further step in the direction away from poetry t... (read more)

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Regarding SPIRITUAL INTIMATIONS

The follow-up to STRESSING THE ESSENTIAL, this collection of poetry is entirely non-rhymed or free verse in style, and represents a further bovaryizat... (read more)

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Regarding STRESSING THE ESSENTIAL

Almost ten years after DOSSHOUSE BLUES came a second collection of poems from the pen of John oLoughlin, and in this collection one sees a more comple... (read more)

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Regarding DOSSHOUSE BLUES

The slightly Beefheart-inspired title originates with a collection of original poems across a range of styles that was put together back in 1974, and ... (read more)

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