Strange Angels by William Pitt Root

Author:William Pitt Root
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wings Press
Published: 2013-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

1. Robert Frost.

2. Ezra Pound.

3. William Carlos Williams.

4. From the “Navajo Dawn Chant”.

5. John F. Kennedy.

6. W.H. Auden.

7. Percy Bysshe Shelley.

8. T.S. Eliot.

9. T.S. Eliot wrote The Waste Land.

10. Lawrence Ferlinghetti wrote Coney Island of the Mind.

11. Allen Ginsberg wrote Reality Sandwiches and Mind Breaths.

12. “Barbaric yawp” is Walt Whitman’s description of the poetry to come.

13. Allen Ginsberg wrote “Howl”.

14. Quoted from preschool daughter of poet Sandra McPherson.

15. Quoted from anonymous child in Idaho Poet-in-the-school program.

16. Quoted from anonymous child in Oregon poet-in the-school program.

17. Translation: “Poetry is a bargain, a good deal for everyone.” A reassurance that the poet does understand that the position of Tucson Poet Laureate was created with a proviso that not one cent from tax monies would be diverted to support it.

18. July 19, 1997.

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