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DAY
Frank Samperi
Illustrations by Claudia Samperi-Warren
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Frank Samperi
Illustrations by Claudia Samperi-Warren
Foreword by John Pearlman
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Copyright © 1998 The Samperi Estate and Claudia Samperi-Warren.
All rights reserved.
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This Volume is dedicated
to the memory of my father.
Claudia Samperi Warren
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Foreword
tragic
shackle
of an angel’s
wing
The crux of the matter is, of course, interrogating that “tragic.”
That is to say, shall the term apply to the angel in descent,
journeying on and about the Earth, or to the angel in ascent?
I scarcely considered the question at the time I wrote these words,
but I did/do have Frank in mind, as ever, when angels come to
mind/heart. The wings themselves are a trope of gravity and of the
flesh’s encounter with fluid media. Perhaps the tragic dimension
exists most “on and about the earth,” in the loss or forgetfulness of
the wings’ history, and the unawareness of that past as a
prefiguration of their immediate potentiality. Such obliviousness
would be to move through one’s days-literally, aimlessly. Thus, the
quality of one’s suffering partakes of an ignorance which is
unremitting, irremediable, horizontal, political. A choice? “Tragic”
applied to such a life is itself the call to compassion. But, what of
the being that will not, does not, cannot, so forget? Surely this is a
life graced by consolation, but also profoundly burdened by the
passionate awareness of distance, of remoteness, inversion:
…day
Tumbling
As far as
The very heart
Of the matter
But these words admit of no doubleness, no terminal exile. The
true “heart of the matter” is the presence through sight of the
transparence of things, as species in and eternity, this very moment
thereby, the gift, proffered, of uniqueness, in distinction, a Cardinal
relation. And not tragic. Thus Frank has written, “I will have
mercy/and not sacrifice.” Perhaps the greatest hurt the angelic
knows comes from the renunciation of the call to recollection, that
those who speak of it find themselves, if not merely unheeded,
then, of necessity, silence. And because the reminding is inevitably
accusative, the suffering becoming most acute, the reflection of,
the falsity of, self unendurable viz. “the knowledge/of God was
more than Holocaust.” Who would see?
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One who looks
Looks because
Light from sight
Sights the light
Sight the light
From above
One remembers Meister Eckhart’s formulation: “the eye with
which I see God is the same with which God sees me.”
see lovely girl
picking
flowers
by river
see lovely writer
picking words
from air
A poetry, not of prophecy, but of sight, the invoking of the visional
as that tropology, which is conversation even of the trope itself, the
turning toward, a vector, an approach to the anagogical which
always already in-spirits. The faith in the poem as of and as the
work one is called to. As Frank wrote in a letter of 1980: “preserve
the (my) work, so that the few may have a share in the Gift,
prevailing by reason of their own difference.” These “few” are
those who understand that the relation is not comparative, not
hierarchical, but vertical. Each and all so Gifted, but called, again,
to the offering, “mercy and not sacrifice.”
Just human, finally, though, “just asks full lexical paly. Here is a
full Day, of the (Frank’s) work, which is (Being) preserved.
Whatever else, the shackles have been annulled. The angel? This
constancy, this humble relation:
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Then the dwelling of the angle in
the soul
or rather the odor
sign
of the dwelling
continuing
habituating the man
to the daily
drawing out radiance
preparing
rendering
transparent
the surroundings
the universe
the aureole
receiving
truest
ray
John Perlman
January 1998
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moment
ruse
existential
doctrine
additive
temporal
although
eternal
sang
the man
expected
to win
his day
by breath
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Spirit
the spirit
embarassment
no
state
willing
to
see
it
any
other
way
but
potictically
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no ground
only
fire
and
spirit
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if
you
don’t
have
time
then
levitate
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steller places
interplanetary
no
point
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this is
all
wrong
better
start
again
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can
a man
write
a book
in a day
that’s
what they’re
trying
to say
and it doesn’t
matter
what gets
in
as long as
it gets in
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You’re in outer space
imaginatively
who’s the joke
on
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a productive mind
can turn this
stuff
out
daily
call it inspiration
and
to boot
get
away
with
it
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You’ve found
a little
corner
in
the
mind
no
comfort
really
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a
bird
files
from
a
branch
twang
for
both
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You can’t be serious
a
writer’s
a
junk man
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I sit out the day
out writing
the
day
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And when you
finish this
there
s
more
paper
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see lovely girl
picking
flowers
by river
see lovely writer
picking
words
from air
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if you had more money
you
wouldn’t
be
so
circumspect
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I know
you know
poetry’s
da
i
ly
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Take a vase
place
it
on
a
window
sill
as
is
empty
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don’t tell me
you’re
out
to prove
you
can write
50 poems
in
a
day
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a man
sitting on
an enormous
root
guzzling
qt. beers
got up
went center
addressed
the
other
leaves
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here I am
lost
to
all
purposes
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you say
man
the cop
beast
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if it were moments
and you had
to respond to
every one of them
you’d soon
break
momentarily
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run
the
risk
of
being
laughed
at
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ashtray to my left
to my right
candle
front
wall
dead center
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a little logic
would be
well placed here
that is there
more
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Flame
poised
mathematically
correct
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what wins
is 3000 pages
to your
300
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blusterer
do you really
think
bulk
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having coffee
a bottle of
Old Grand-Dad
to the side
one shot
left
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c’mon
you know
no one knows
what a poem
is
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willow
outside my
bedroom
window
folksey beyond
contempt
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New York poet
you falsify
you’re up to
your
head
in
shit
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move round
lucifer
lead us out
you
holding
candelabrum
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I wish you all the luck
knowing
of course
you wish
me
the
same
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Look
at
my
ceiling
all
pealing
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So much
of our speech
is just
that
and no more
not
poetic
but a
century
later
how quaint
nothing
but
poetic
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Could
go to the
waterfront
watch the sun
go down
return
home
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the
moment’s
no
help
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how
many
moments
in
a
day
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suppose
you
miss
a
moment
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the
heart
skips
a
beat
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fear
then
the
determinant
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if
you
can’t
keep
at
it
you’re
done
for
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no
rush
no
working
at
it
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Spirit
the spirit
not
breath
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moment
now
time
not eternal
no
twisting
can
right
it
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Spiritual
man
lives
eternal
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walker
hills
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enters
city
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Frank Samperi, 1933-1991.
American poet Frank Samperi was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1933.
Discovered by poet Louis Zukofsky, his first poems were published in
the early 1960’s. Through study of such masters as Aquinas, Aristotle,
Dante and the Hindu Vedantist, Shankaracarya, Samperi created a body
of work that was a unique exploration of the ability of language to exist in
a pure musicality apart from thingly reference. “Frank’s work was truly abstract,
truly resisted the things of the world and boasted rather the refining fire of the spirit,”
said Robert Kelly. In his lifetime, he published 20 collections of poetry,
including the trilogy Prefiguration, Quadrifariam,
and Lumen Gloriae.