I’m still reading writers on writing. Here is quote from William Stafford: Every day I get up and look out the window, and something occurs to me, something always occurs to me. And if it doesn’t, I just lower my standards Why am I so interested in writers writings on writing? I suspect it to be…
Tag: american poetry
The Sunday Poem : Carl Dennis
Writers cannot step back entirely from the presumptions of their specific cultures, but they are more likely to be useful critics of those cultures, not merely mirrors, if they make an effort to hold up all they believe to critical scrutiny. And more likely to make this effort honestly if they can imagine readers free…
Burning cold
Elizabeth Bishop At the Fishhouses (Excerpt) All is silver: the heavy surface of the sea, swelling slowly as if considering spilling over, … Cold dark deep and absolutely clear, element bearable to no mortal, … I have seen it over and over, the same sea, the same, slightly, indifferently swinging above the stones, icily free…
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