21 posts tagged with poetry by clavdivs.
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"Machinery will tend to lose its sensational glamour and appear in its true subsidiary order in human life as use and continual poetical allusion subdue its novelty. For, contrary to general prejudice, the wonderment experienced in watching nose dives is of less immediate creative promise to poetry than the familiar gesture of a motorist in the modest act of shifting gears."
'Hart Crane and the Machine Age'. 1933.
'Notes Torwards A Supreme Fiction'
"In the life of a poet, of course, there is no Election Day to distinguish the visionaries from the also-rans. So Stevens’s response, when it came, trickled down in dribs and drabs. Scholars argue over this: some see him as returning, defensively, to conservatism, particularly since in a 1940 letter he declared that “Communism is just the new romanticism,” and referred to “my rightism.”"
'What Mitt Romney Might Learn From Wallace Stevens' [archive link]
'Ut Sementem Feceris, Ita Metes'
Overlooked No More: Voltairine de Cleyre, America’s ‘Greatest Woman Anarchist’ (NYT-archive link) de Cleyre was a poet of merit as told by Elizabeth King's essay on her poetry, 'Pearl of Anarchy. Voltairine de Cleyre’s radical poetry is more timely than ever.' The anarchist library has a collection of her poetry on-line
"nothing beside remains"
2023
Thomas Lynch' poem 'Par Rum Pum Pum Pum. 'I Don’t Know . . . But I Live in Hope': A Conversation with Poet, Undertaker, Essayist Thomas Lynch. PBS 'Frontline' did a great job on 'The Undertaking' (full documentary, slyt.) 'Refusing at Fifty-Two to Write Sonnets'.
"I'm not going to let anybody see you"
Gathering Paradise:
He stumbles on like a rumour of war..."
'The War Horse', by Eavan Boland.
"When studying Boland’s poetry, the students rightfully began to discuss their own struggles—and, remembering Yeats’s “I, being poor, have only my dreams”—were better able to resist the oppressive forces in their lives, to understand the strength needed to overcome provincial societal norms, to rally against antiquated ideas and histories that demand women conduct themselves in ways antithetical to a free-thinking person." from, “Shadows in the Story”: An Interview with Eavan Boland. [more inside]
"I am not a Caesar. I have simply ordered a box of maniacs."
Sylvia Plath and the Bees....in February 1963, Sylvia Plath wrote a cluster of extraordinary poems about Bees. She had taken up beekeeping that June and wrote excitedly to her mother in America to describe the events of attending a local beekeepers’ meeting in the Devon village of North Tawton", Sylvia Plath and the Bee Poems
"The memory, news story you told me a week ago..."
Poet, essayist, activist Minnie Bruce Pratt has died. "Her books and poems have received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the American Library Association, the Poetry Society of America, Lambda Literary and the Publishing Triangle."
"All the Women Caught in Flaring Light".
"We watched him/swallowed by the crowd"
In 1936, Edwin Denby co- wrote: "Horse Eats Hat" with one Orson Welles, age 21. Denby was a dance critic and poet. 'Denby and Balanchine: A Dance Critic’s Work'. 'On an Edwin Denby NYC Traffic Sonnet' is a wonderful look at one of his poems. The Folks at Pennsound has a collection of spoken material. In 2016, the NYPL staff contributed, 'Edwin Denby: Memory, History and Documentation'.
"Still the walls do not fall, I do not know why;"
H.D.(Hilda Doolittle) epic poem, 'The Walls Do No Fall'. H.D. Reads "Helen in Egypt" (slyt). "HERmione is a lyrical act of sense-making, the reverse of a time capsule—gazing backwards, at a younger self now rendered a stranger in the wistful eye of hindsight." from: 'Dream of a Past. 'Going Through Hell With H.D.’s ‘Eurydice’
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'Fortress of the Sky' (slyt) A short documentary on the B-17 Bomber. 'The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner'. 'The life of a ball turret gunner.'
"that survival apparatus"
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"I spent out my faded web/old Ahasuerus of unrevealed destiny"
Four Poems by Dennis Brutus.
'Cold' (YT), 'Train Journey', 'I must conjure from my past', ' Still the Sirens' [more inside]
"Write beautifully what people don’t want to hear."
"Never get out of the gotdam boat"
Observe everything.
"Busted Monometer of Planetary Celsius."
'Climax Change' and Three Poems by Mark Levine.
Levine won the 1993 National Series Selection for his first book, Debt. Other work includes teaching Journalism. [more inside]
"His mouth is under the sea now."
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