epub |eng | | Author:Rosu, Anca [Rosu, Anca]

Death is absolute and without memorial, As in a season of autumn, When the wind stops, When the wind stops and, over the heavens, The clouds go, nevertheless, In their ...

epub |eng | | Author:Elizabeth Bishop

October 24, 1959 … “Helena Morley” is going to appear in Japanese. They are using both Portuguese and English texts, so I’ll get about $100 advance for that. Did I ...

epub | | | Author:Tony Leuzzi

I loved the poem “Akhmatova and I: Boleros.” What prompted this poem? It seems like there’s a great story behind it. I have always been drawn to her. And I ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-01 | Author:Maureen N. McLane [McLane, Maureen N.]

Neither honey nor bee for me. (SAPPHO) And it is true that H.D. swims in some murky waters, and that after the first toughened hard-soft, sweet-bitter Imagist lyrics her poems ...

epub |eng | 2012-02-01 | Author:Jeffrey Skinner

On the street, Bobby handed a twenty to Dan, who was tongue-tied with gratitude. He put an arm around the kid and swore him to secrecy—A location as good as ...

epub |eng | 2010-03-14 | Author:Christopher Dewdney

A few weeks later, on a late November afternoon, I went back to meet with Dr. Hanly, the head of the sleep laboratory, to review my charts. A receptionist pointed ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Carl Phillips

“No more masks! No more mythologies!” And yet, the poem is always at some level a mask—we choose as poets what to include, what not to, from the experience that ...

epub |eng | 2007-03-14 | Author:Kenneth Paul Kramer

Pyre or Pyre (Little Gidding IV) As we have seen, the associated lyrical fourth movements of Four Quartets not only recapitulate, in a more intense manner, major thematic motifs running ...

epub |eng | | Author:Neil L. Rudenstine

SIXTEEN Hugely Politic Nearly all of the sonnets from 121 to 125 are among the most declarative and confident in the entire sequence. The poet is seeking to prevail over ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2011-08-28 | Author:Martiny, Erik

Poems for the Eye and for the Ear The attempt to capture the naturalness of everyday speech, and claim it as the American idiom, incited William Carlos Williams to resist ...

epub |eng | 2006-03-14 | Author:Franz Wright [Wright, Franz]

Sacrament of metaphor, sacrament of matter Aren't stars almost in your vicinity It was only the barest beginning starward- bound, only the March branches, only the first gifts of the ...

epub |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:Chinitz, David E.

Away we go! And we all say: OH! Well I never! Was there ever A Cat so clever As Magical Mr. Mistoffelees! (CPP 161) Here Eliot lengthens the third line ...

epub |eng | 2017-03-22 | Author:Henry W. Longfellow [Longfellow, Henry W.]

Huge as Goliath of Gath, or the terrible Og, king of Bashan; One was Pecksuot named, and the other was called Wattawamat. Led by their Indian guide, by Hobomok, friend ...

epub |eng | 2012-10-08 | Author:William Blake

William Bond I wonder whether the Girls are mad And I wonder whether they mean to kill And I wonder if William Bond will die For assuredly he is very ...

epub |eng | 2020-03-19 | Author:Mark Nowak

Photograph © Lisa Arrastia FIGURE 10: Christine Lewis playing steel drums at a PEN World Voices Festival event. New York. May 9, 2015. According to Rancière, the very suggestion that ...