Tag: Hayden Carruth
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shameless with hayden carruth
I found this week’s poem reading through The Seleced Poetry of Hayden Carruth (Macmillan, 1985). In his introduction, Galway Kinnell quotes Carolyn Kizer’s response to the question of what it takes to be a poet: “It is necessary to be absolutely shameless.” There are many things this could mean. For one, Carruth was writing at a…
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* a meditation on brevity with paz, ritsos, & carruth
Writing – Octavio Paz I draw these letters as the day draws its images and blows over them and does not return It’s suiting to begin this meditation on brevity with Paz who once said that he admired the short lyric for being the hardest kind of poem to write. Anyone who’s worked out…
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* what I don’t know – with Hayden Carruth & Joseph Massey
Swept – Hayden Carruth When we say I miss you what we mean is I’m filled with dread. At night alone going to bed is like lying down in a wave. Total absence of light. Swept away to gone. This week I am sharing poems by Hayden Carruth and Joseph Massey. The thread between them…
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* cemeteries, thrift stores & Hayden Carruth
This vine-riddled chap of a chapel can be found at the Vine Street Hill Cemetery – founded in 1849 – which we drove by yesterday on our way to a thrift store. (We were hunting for a funky tablecloth and were not disappointed.) In general, cemeteries are pretty charged places for people, myself included. They…
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