Love poems, and notably Harrison’s, often ask whether our true selves have been read properly by the loved one. It’s not only his love poems, though, that profit from biographical elements, and often the lives described or narrated are of other writers: Horace, Samuel Johnson, Dickens; ...
Joe: Selected Letters(edited by Daniel Kane; Columbia UP). .The evening will include readings by Brad Gooch, Vincent Katz, Anne Waldman, Keith McDermott, Michael Lally, Ron Padgett, and Ann Lauterbach.
An indispensable combination of 200 best loved hymns, poems and readings for every occasion, and ideal for personal reflection. Complete with a brief introduction to each piece and its author, this book is a wonderful personal reference and devotional gu
— and full of immense character: “the perfect classic Woman Wronged voice,” in theNME’s words. She’s become a rock version of a great character actress, creating fascinating albums such as 2021’sShe Walks in Beauty,on which she performed spellbinding renditions of Romantic poems.—M.M...
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Today’s poem is an eerie parable, fairly characteristic of Kevin Prufer’s recent work. His poems are haunting because they are genuinely and fascinatingly haunted. His speakers don’t seem to be thinly disguised versions of Prufer – rather, they seem to express different moods of a postmode...
whose poems seem to enjoy confounding the two. Its shape may suggest “postage stamp,” then “letter,” then “the poet’s room,” then “grave”—then, perhaps most aptly, “flower garden.” Robins’ poem begins in objectivity as he presents Dickinson’s funeral procession as a “crossin...
TheTrilby ClarkCard (of the once-renowned1920s actor) is of course both a “photograph” and a “print” but is cataloged in the department of Drawings and Prints with Leonardo’sHead of the Virgin. Looking back on examples from the Met’s Prints online, I notice a surprising number are...
— and full of immense character: “the perfect classic Woman Wronged voice,” in theNME’s words. She’s become a rock version of a great character actress, creating fascinating albums such as 2021’sShe Walks in Beauty,on which she performed spellbinding renditions of Romantic poems.—M.M...