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I like Billy Collins because he is so accessible. I like Seamus Heaney, but find him harder to understand. Here's one of his easier poems that resonates for me.
Hope everyone is having a good day. I have mixed feelings about a snow day tomorrow. If only people wouldn't anticipate and talk so much.
posted by rabbi neil fleischmann @ 12:54 AM
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You said on a post that you like 'etc.' So, in that spirit, here's a link to a good YouTube of part of the Jackson Pollock film made in 1951 with Pollock doing the commentary:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrVE-WQBcYQ
and a link to an interesting essay about the composer of the music heard in that film: http://www.cnvill.net/mfmattis.htm
A wonderfully evocative poem. It roused a memory of mine, of catching polywogs as a child. The events of our childhood are often inspiration for our feelings today. I especially love the closing line: 'I rhyme To see myself, to set the darkness echoing.'
Thanks escqapades - i am without sound on this computer at present but will listen and watch asap.
It amazes me too how strong childhood memories can be...
Glad you liked the poem...
Randomly placed information for Escqapades: I finished the Winger book. In the last essay she writes about Petit. Apparently the reviewers that wondered and theorized didn't read the whole book.
Floating through ether,
L'Petit information.
The last piece of the puzzle.
Thanks!
Actually, for a haiku, which I forgot I was writing:
Floating through ether,
L'Petit information.
the puzzle's last piece.
A surprise haiku
In the middle of teaching
Makes the day for me
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