Tag: childhood
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gabriel garcia marquez: a lyrical alignment
This week’s poem is a lyrical alignment from Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s prologue to his short story collection Strange Pilgrims. In his prologue – entitled “Why Twelve, Why Stories, Why Pilgrims” – Marquez details the journey of his stories, how some have traveled with him for years and others arrived unexpected. I remember marveling at the…
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* the 100th post
Bright star – would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores… (John Keats, Bright Star) With those six lines there, poetry had…
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* sharing toys with Takuboku Ishikawa
Tanka are my sad toys. Takuboku Ishikawa Takuboku Ishikawa (1886 – 1912) said the above statement at the end of an essay, explaining how he approached the form with the intimacy of a diary. They were “sad” because he wrote them while unhappy – they were “toys” because they were useless to society. This outlook…
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* cynicism via Adam Levine & Philip Larkin
This show changed my life. I was a cynic. It brought back the joy… (Adam Levine) This week on the Influence: Philip Larkin! FIRST, though, a confession: I watch The Voice. There I said it. Sharing this information in a public forum is tough. Indeed, admitting what T.V. shows one indulges in can be as…
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