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Isabella Gardner: The Collected Poems (American Poets Continuum Series ; Vol. 18) by Isabella Gardner
The Second Tree from the Corner by E. B. White
Left Out in the Rain: New Poems 1947-1985 by Gary Snyder
Eugene Onegin (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) by A.S. Pushkin
Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton
The Selected Poetry of Blake by William; Erdman, David V. (editor) Blake
The private dining room, and other new verses by Ogden Nash
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Favorite authorsElizabeth Bishop, Louise Bogan, Amy Clampitt, Billy Collins, Robert Frost, Federíco García Lorca, Li-Young Lee, Rainer Maria Rilke, Mark Twain, Richard Wilbur (Shared favorites)
About me I am a for-the-most-part unpublished poet who desires to improve his craft.
About my library My library was whittled down during repeated moves over the past few years. Then I started buying books again at libraries and other places where I can get them cheap, cheap, cheap.
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I'd agree "Best of Us" is stronger. The connection in stanza one (soundwise) between "arts" and "dark" makes that work very nicely (while suggesting "dark arts.) And the closure at the end of stanza two (which I will think of as a
matt(e) finish) sums it up nicely. I do find line eight a bit awkward. All in all, it seems very fine!
"Calligraphy" starts awkwardly and (for me) seems to get stronger as it grows more direct. Beginning with "Alone" I think it works effectively. I find the inadequacy of "kind" particulaly poignant - a true and uncommon observation.
Hopefully things there are going well. Here we are dry for the moment, though lake levels are too high for comfort and there is danger of flooding all around
posted by bookstopshere at 1:01 pm (EST) on Jul 16, 2008
Best,
-Byron
posted by angelspeak at 1:41 am (EST) on Jun 30, 2008
I hope you add me as a friend as well.
Do you have a blog of current poems that I may check out?
Nice to meet you here and greetings from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
Best,
-Byron
posted by angelspeak at 1:38 am (EST) on Jun 30, 2008
posted by bookstopshere at 2:49 pm (EST) on Nov 9, 2007
posted by bookstopshere at 5:19 pm (EST) on Oct 13, 2007
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