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Thursday, March 31, 2011

To and away

I read The Best American Poetry 2008 but cant recall even one poem. Not even The water cooler poem by Paul Muldoon rings no bell. His sweet-throated throstle in many lines, didnt etch itself enough in my memory.

Reading the same line or word or sound more than once, whether in a refrain or rhyme, takes the poem and the reader outside of the realm of everyday written language. - Poetry for beginners, Margaret Chapman & Kathleen welton

While in fiction, the authors are urged to write dialogue mimicing the everyday language, poetry is willing to go on a flight with snowman

Collage

from Paul Muldoon's Plan B

Falderals
Femora
Fouter
Nereid
Runt
Triton
Throstle
Flitch

In Muldoon's poetry, myth and the world of harm, debt coexist.

Love the country enough

to expect a great deal of it. - Obama's messageas in the introduction of the following book.

Starting today: 100 poems for Obama's first 100 days, is an interesting project.

After the inaugural poem by Elizabeth Alexander, 99 followed her.
Matthew Rohrer

Can we solve Billy Collin's dilemma of what a poet Laureate should do, by suggesting that he trap each day, moment?

Them

A lawyer once told me that
lawyers are social doctors.
And shelley told the world that
poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world

Wit about

According to Marion Meade, in the introduction of Dorothy Parker's Complete poems,
A E Housman's poems were an influnece on her.

Coty perfume.
19th Amendment

Reading a last line of Dorothy Parker's poem Epitaph
and watch the worms slip by, slip by.
I wanted it to be
and watch the worms slip slip by


Elinor Wyle's poems
Phyllis McGinley's poems

Some poems of Parker have an Envoi. Its like PS.

Politician poet

Gabriela Mistral. Her poems.


Morganatic

Comet made a one third poet

I came across Murilo Mendes in Saramago's Small memories.

A poem of his translated by M S Merwin. Going by the introduction, this book, Say this of horses: a selection of poems has the equine spirit in great proportions. A similar book - Poems about horses by carmela Ciuraru.

How the comet made the poet