I have posted these poems before, but being a lover of ekphrastic poetry, I feel it will do you all good to read them again … Musée Des Beaux Arts By W.H. Auden About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else…
Tag: William Carlos Williams
Poetry As Survival
Ars Poetica V (personal lyric, cont.); Poetry as Survival – postscript: It is difficult to get the news from poems …
Are you possessed by topophilia?
C. D. Wright’s: The Poet, The Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, A Wedding in St. Roch, The Big Box Store, The Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All, is a collection of fragments. It is also a book on writing and reading, a book on how reading informs writing, and on the relationship between…
Approach of Winter
The half-stripped trees struck by a wind together, bending all, the leaves flutter drily and refuse to let go or driven like hail stream bitterly out to one side and fall where the salvias, hard carmine– like no leaf that ever was– edge the bare garden. William Carlos Williams . .
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