Schizo-Latte: #14 in the Pocatello Blend Chapbook Series.Schizo-Latte: #14 in the Pocatello Blend Chapbook chapbook, one of the pamphlets formerly sold in Europe and America by itinerant agents, or "chapmen." Chapbooks were inexpensive—in England often costing only a penny—and, like the broadside, they were usually anonymous and undated. Series Douglas Airmet and Doug-Bob Blue Scarab Press P.O. Box 4966, Pocatello ID 83295-4966 No ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m Chapbook at $3 plus $1 mailing rate US Each chapbook in the Pocatello Blend series features two writers or poets living in the Southeast Idaho area. From what he calls a "naieve and stumbling" beginning as poet, Airmet has proceeded to a sensitive maturity. Doug-Bob brings an irreverent and earthy tang to their collaboration. Together they comprise two halves of a whole, with a rather schizoid schizoid /schiz·oid/ (skit´soid) 1. denoting the traits that characterize the schizoid personality. 2. attitude. In "Shall I Compare Thee ...", Doug-Bob introduces a quirky paraphrase of Shakespeare's sonnet with the same title by comparing his beloved to a dog: Dogs will not stay, lie down, they want to fetch, They jump the fence and end up in the pound. .......... You never roll in filth, you don't consort With wild dogs "Wild Dogs" were a band featuring current Journey drummer Deen Castronovo and Matthew T McCourt (aka Dr Mastermind). The band went through several lineup changes that included at least 2 singers, 2 guitarists and 3 bassists in its history. who go howling in the night. In contrast, Airmet's "Two Nights / One Moon" rhapsodizes the effects of nature on two lovers: ... the full moon behind massed clouds our path a darkness up into manifold darknesses .......... ... the lake in and out of moonlight over the lake white mist moving the far spruces, firs shredding the mist moon tearing the clouds apart hiding the pieces behind the cliffs ... Doug-Bob follows with a witty double entendre of a poem titled "The Soft Red Chair", whereby he contemplates poetry, women, and grammatical correctness in a bookstore: So snatch a couplet couplet Two successive lines of verse. A couplet is marked usually by rhythmic correspondence, rhyme, or the inclusion of a self-contained utterance. Couplets may be independent poems, but they usually function as parts of other verse forms, such as the Shakespearean sonnet, , squeeze a quatrain quat·rain n. A stanza or poem of four lines. [French, from Old French, from quatre, four, from Latin quattuor; see kwetwer- in Indo-European roots. , Swell an extended metaphor! Seize both the Either and the Or And shatter the ultimate prohibition: End every sentence with a preposition preposition, in English, the part of speech embracing a small number of words used before nouns and pronouns to connect them to the preceding material, e.g., of, in, and about. ! And again, in "Donelle", Airmet contrasts his partner's wit with tenderness: You teach love to the foolish poet, childish man, as my useless words drop around my feet In the wonder of your love. I enjoyed the contrasting styles of Douglas Airmet and Doug-Bob. Blue Scarab Press has done an amazing job in this pairing, as with the others published in Pocatello Blend. And I must add that in each of the fourteen chapbooks so far, Blue Scarab Press has proven its point: There are, indeed, many gifted writers and poets living in the Southeast Idaho area. |
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