Tag: Blaise Cendrars

• * dedicated with william carlos williams

  While “The Red Wheelbarrow” remains one of his more popular poems - and one that confounds students to this day, usually leading to the question Why is that a poem? (to which I usually respond with Why not?) - read enough William Carlos Williams and you’ll see how multifaceted his body of work is. In this week’s poem, […]

  José Angel Araguz

  September 18, 2015

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  arts, astrology, Blaise Cendrars, books, Cincinnati Ohio, Corpus Christi Texas, Dedicationf for a Plot of Ground, Eugene Oregon, Jose Angel Araguz, literature, lyric poems, poetry, short lyric poems, the friday influence, The Red Wheelbarrow, Virgo, William Carlos Williams, writing

• * listing with blaise cendrars

  This week’s poem - “Chinks” by Blaise Cendrars - reminded me of an early lesson about list poems, namely how most poems can easily slip into lists. Whether it be a series of phrases, images, or movements, lists can sneak their way into poems, usually in threes (note how even in this sentence about lists […]

  José Angel Araguz

  September 4, 2015

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  arts, astrology, Blaise Cendrars, Cincinnati Ohio, Corpus Christi Texas, creative writing, Eugene Oregon, French Poetry, Jose Angel Araguz, list poem, literature, lyric poems, poetry, short lyric poems, the friday influence, translation, Virgo, writing