Tag: holiday

• the road to a holiday video poem

  The Light Between Us – José Angel Araguz Before learning to read, words are darkness. What’s there feels unseeable; paper and ink, sure, but nothing you feel a part of. The world around us feels like this at times, like darkness. A harsh word, violence, pain— we can’t read these things easily, must wait for the […]

  José Angel Araguz

  December 28, 2018

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• * Keats’ On the Grasshopper and Cricket: a reenactment

  This week on the Influence: (a) play! It’s winter time and I realize that I haven’t posted up a winter poem.  One of my favorites is John Keats’ “On the Grasshopper and Cricket”. It is a deceptively playful yet serious sonnet.  Statements on “the poetry of earth” occur twice, breaking up the poem’s argument which […]

  José Angel Araguz

  December 28, 2012

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