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My friend the internet
After last week’s poem (and the week before) I decided to google the elegy John Berryman wrote for Delmore Schwartz. Berryman’s elegies of famous poets are some of his best dream songs, and I will probably post a couple here, but there are...
Questions
And here is a contemporary elegy from a living poet, very much of our time.
Questions
If there’s one true thing, it’s that
Google will make money off us no matter what.
If we want to know
what percentage of America is whit...
No more? No more?
This is my favorite poem by Delmore Schwartz, a prodigy, friend of Lowell and Berryman, who flamed out in his early 50s. I think of this poem as an elegy, not just for those we’ve lost, but for ourselves, burning in the relentless fire of t...
My Son the Man
I’ve seen several versions of this poem with slight variations, but this is my favorite.
My Son the Man
Suddenly his shoulders get a lot wider,
the way Houdini would expand his body
while people were putting him in chains. It seem...
Married
Jack Gilbert’s poems about the loss of his wife are some of the best I’ve read about how grief works. I’ve posted one about his long relationship with Linda Gregg, and here is another, about Michiko, to whom he was married for eleven years....
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Meryl Natchez took a leave of absence in her Junior year of college and has been rigorously home schooling herself ever since. Her fourth book, Catwalk, received an Indie Best Book 2020 Award from Kirkus Reviews.
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