Round 32

Yusef: "Ten Sighs from a Sabbatical" by Rodney Jones

Bob: [untitled] "across dark streams" by Ronald Johnson

Ok, Yusef, you are disappointing me. Warmed-over poetic gossip from the Southern agrarians, what Allen Tate told Rodney about Robert Lowell and Randall Jarrell? Who cares?

Bob, on the other hand, is resorting to DEAD GUYS. In most forms of competition being dead is not an advantage, but, as Rodney himself writes,
"The dead, when they are recent, are as good / as they will ever be." [Huh?]

Ronald Johnson's poem is wonderful, I'm going to quote all of it:

across dark streams
of shooting stars

supplicant cast fly
another year alive

belief, belief brief
zero at white core

Not only that, but Ronald Johnson is from Kansas. We only have two or three good poets in the history of the state. Another round for Bob. Score after 32 Rounds:

11-17-4