Reading Amanda’s review of Julianna Baggott’s newest volume of poetry really made me want to read it, and I’m glad I took the recommendation. I was intrigued by the idea of an entire set of poems about poetry and the process of writing it, and was curious to see how Baggott would keep [...]
Archive for March, 2007
Poetry review #2 – another “Compulsions of Silkworms & Bees”
Published March 29th, 2007 in Rebecca. 0 CommentsHas anyone ever seen “A Bout de souffle” by Godard?
Published March 27th, 2007 in L.Ryerse. 1 CommentAnyway, that’s kinda-sorta what I was thinking about when I wrote this. Since it took me this long to post my own writing on this site, I thought I might as well jump in with two feet – especially since I’m not turning this one in to the class.
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Drifters Inn
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He flips the key around [...]
Tonight there are stars – and millions of them.
Even though you’re in New York City where
stars are forgotten and the streets blaze upwards
from yellow curbs and storefront windows.
Are we responsible for the words
we throw at random into the universe?
Carefully censored or those that sputter
to life below the layer of consciousness,
not a single word has ever
altered [...]
I opened this book with not a little hesitation. After coming face to face with R.T. Smith in a class this semester, I decided that he might be a bit too normal to be a good poet. Of course, this shows my ignorance when it comes to the world of poetry, and my [...]
I’m “old”: the children commented in front of me,
because they thought I couldn’t hear.
But I know they’ll be me in thirty years,
So I won’t remind them.
It came to me at a garage sale,
Browsing through out-of-date
Instruments, gadgets, and memories,
On Saturday early morning.
Three dollars for a busted, barely
Operable videocassette recorder.
Faded buttons: pause, fast-forward, resume,
Even play. But not [...]
Julianna Baggott’s third volume of poetry, Compulsions of Silkworms and Bees is an amazing tribute to the craft of writing and the gift of imagination in the world around us. The volume is broken up into five parts, each containing between nine and eleven poems. The different sections themselves are uniform in that they all [...]
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon’s Black Swan was an excellent recommendation by Dr. Emerson for contemporary poetry. I had to make sure to take extra care of the volume, in fact, as she was one of Dr. Emerson’s former students and had autographed the copy. Black Swan was also the recipient of the 2001 Cave [...]
In her 2006 volume, “Lizzie Borden in Love” Julianna Baggott takes on the voices of over 20 women as she offers imaginative female perspectives on topics such as death, insanity, love, motherhood, and beauty. Many of the women are famous, but some are not, and it is this juxtaposition of viewpoints that allows the [...]
E. E. Cummings was an American poet, painter, essayist, and playwright. Not well liked at the start of his poetic career in 1920, he fought against criticism and rejection before being recognized and praised by the post World War II poetic generation. His personal style and ability to play with form wasn’t understood by readers [...]
Stanley Kunitz: a reporter, a soldier, editor, and teacher – these are all the many faces of the poet Kunitz that is reflected in his poetry. He even describes it in his poem The Layers: i have walked through many lives/some of them my own/and I am not who I was…
His first book Intellectual Things [...]
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