In an ivory tower making Brazil nut stuffing.įrom farm to Paree to puppets and dolls and
You plucked chickens and wrote to your soldier. The once-and-never capital of Illinois, where In the center of the country, branded by train tracks. She Who Would Have Been One Hundred, Was My Mother Like music, imagery, heart, clarity, the magic nation of imagination, storytelling.Īnd this poem, in its slant way, does kind of tell the story of my mom. I was studying Dylan Thomas with the wonderful Terry Ehret (at the wonderful Sitting Room) at the time and was influenced by his poem “When All My Five and Country Senses See.” As I tell my students, the best way to write a good poem is to read a good poem – so much inspiration and the influence of all the good things poems can provide. In this month’s column, I’m going to share a poem I wrote a few years ago when my mother would have turned 100, if she had lived that long. Greetings, Sonomans! Happy May Day and Mother’s Day! The gleam of marble into flesh? Spur fairy coaches,
What could flash Saxon, then Latin, could turn I knelt in cathedrals and at Roman shrines, enthralled. Turned to marble statues like the crypt’s.īubbled with laughter and starchy vapors. “Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright.” Thank you, friends, and I hope to see you at a reading for our beautiful new anthology, The Freedom of New Beginnings, Poems of Witness and Vision from Sonoma County, California. It will be out soon. Land of My Father’s War is available at Copperfield’s in Sebastopol, and Many Rivers, Books and Tea also in Sebastopol. It will give you an idea of Dad’s role in my early exposure to literature, which surely influenced my becoming a poet. This poem is from my book, Land of My Father’s War. With Father’s Day this month, it feels appropriate in that way, too. But it has come to mean a poem in which a poet meditates on the art of poetry. I thought this poem would be an appropriate farewell in that it’s an Ars Poetica. That term takes its name from a poem by Horace written in Rome in about 15 BCE.
GradeSaver, 6 June 2019 Web.It has been such an honor to serve as your poet laureate over the last two years! With this column, I’m saying good-bye as my successor will be sworn in sometime in July. "Sappho: Poems and Fragments Bibliography". Previous Section Test Yourself! - Quiz 4! Buy Study Guide How To Cite in MLA Format Adler, Claire. "What Sappho's Poetry Sounded Like to the Ancient Greeks." The New Yorker. Norton and Company, 2016.ĭaniel Mendelsohn. Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press, 1966. Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press, 1996. New York: Vintage Books, 2002.Įllen Greene.
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