October 2011
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“What a great poem teaches you, and it’s not intellectual at all, is the...”
– W. S. Merwin (via proustitute)
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“To create is to resist. To resist is to create.”
– Stéphane Hessel
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Sonnet 73
That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou seest the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away, Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest. In me thou...
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A Conversation with Seamus Heaney →
Heaney is a master of connecting with the land and his past, and the ancient hills of Ireland are far from lean when it comes to analysis. He also writes on family in his latest collection, “Human Chain,” a topic that never fails to inspire me. Unfortunately, when I write on my family and the Florida palm trees under whose shade we grew up, it doesn’t come out as elegantly as...
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“The whole purpose of climbing something like [Mt. Everest] is to effect some...”
– Yvon Chouinard
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Poetry Friday
Like the Afterglow
We shared a dance
and later, a cigarette
allowing the flaming finger
to kiss our hands,
a gentle burn distracting
us from the wind’s bite.
We talked little,
preferring to linger
silently in the night’s dark bath.
Extinguishing what was left of the cigarette,
(a gram of ash stolen by the wind)
she returned to the bar.
I walked toward the river...
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Poetry Daily →
A nice piece from our most recent Nobel Prize winner for Literature, Tomas Tranströmer.
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“I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
– Pablo Neruda
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