I don’t really know what to say about the poem (the circumstances of its writing)—they are just too obvious. The poem was written in June 2022.
Maria Stepanova on "Pale blue and a flag inside, can't see which one..." |
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"Which Poems Help in Hard Times?"
"When my husband was in a hospice, I brought him a copy of Edgar Allan Poe’s poems. I read to him 'The Raven,' which has wonderful images and language. When one of our kids came in and saw what we were doing, he said there was a 'Simpsons' Halloween episode where James Earl Jones narrated the poem. We pulled it up on his television and watched it—hilarious. It was a wonderful respite from a very sad and difficult time."
via THE WASHINGTON POST |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Keene Carter on David Ferry's The Odes of Horace
"The genius for a simple clarity is what makes all of Ferry’s Horace and Virgil so commendable, and his verse is proof as well that 'simple clarity' is not 'economy,' nor less and stranger language. That he adds a word or removes a god is hardly worth attacking when the former makes for grace and the latter is a name we neither cared about nor said correctly. Instead, like the King James translators, he understands that another language is another material, and one cannot build a wooden house from marble. The attempt will last forever." |
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