This is a response to Billy's most recent "improv" entry:
Billy, I love how you have essentially created a conversation with Donald Justice's poem "Men at Forty." Your "riff" stands out to me because it issues a compelling shift from both the perspective and tonality of Justice's poem. "Men at Forty" centers around these metaphors of aging, regret and memory. With your "Men at Twenty-Five" you have reversed these elements. Justice's poem gathers its momentum and impact from the symbolization of the past, in yours you really utilize this same effect but aim it towards the "weight" of the future. "their faces,haggard/ by the weight of decades"--I especially admire this great line.
Great stuff, Billy. Can't wait to read more.
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