September 2011
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“Four years of grave digging with a nice volume of poetry or a book of philosophy...”
– Charles Simic (via theparisreview)
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Gwendolyn Brooks, "a song in the front yard" →
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I’ve stayed in the front yard all my life. I want a peek at the back Where it’s rough and untended and hungry weed grows. A girl gets sick of a rose. I want to go in the back yard now And maybe down the alley, To where the charity children play. I want a good time today. They do some…
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“Do not feel safe. The poet remembers.
You may kill him — another will be born....”
– ~ Czeslaw Milosz, Poland (via libraryland)
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Dead Writers Club: Happy Deathday, Mr. Neruda! →
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On this day in 1973, beloved Chilean poet and 1971 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature, Pablo Neruda, died of prostate cancer at the age of 69.
Neruda’s impact on other poets cannot be denied and due to the sheer volume of his work, there is little chance of Neruda ever being…
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Publishers Weekly Poetry Reviews: PW Poetry... →
pwpoetry:
Lots of good books for the fall, plus a Q&A with Rita Dove. Happy reading…
Shaking Up the Canon: PW Talks with Rita Dove about her new anthology:
The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry edited by Rita Dove (Penguin)
plus more reviews of:
Jam Tree Gully by John Kinsella…
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“My books piled up before me for my use
waiting in space where I placed...”
– Allen Ginsberg, from “Transcription Of Organ Music” found in Howl And Other Poems (via bookoasis)
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LA Times: "Donald Hall's 'The Back Chamber: Poems'... →
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“Early each morning I rose to bring you coffee in bed.
You kindled a woodfire in...”
– “What We Did” by Donald Hall, from THE BACK CHAMBER
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Donald Hall reads “Apples Peaches”...
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“Now I am eighty years old, content to sit in my chair
watching unpainted boards...”
– “Pieces” from THE BACK CHAMBER by Donald Hall
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