Tag: lyric poem
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clarity with louise glück
Came across this week’s poem reading through James Longenbach’s solid book, The Art of the Poetic Line (Graywolf Press). Longenbach does a great read of the poem, noting how the poem is grounded in straightforward syntax in the first line, and returns to this foundation in the poem’s last lines. In between, the poem plays out […]
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* what a poem does & Russell Edson
What makes them poems is that they are self-contained, and once you read one you have to go back and start reading it again. That’s what a poem does. (Charles Simic) Charles Simic said the above in regards to his own collection, The World Doesn’t End, which consists of a series of prose poems. I love […]
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* Masaoka Shiki & life sketches
along this darkling country road comes the lonely voice of a coachman every so often urging his horse on **** The above lyric poem is by Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902), one of the innovators of the modern tanka form *. Tanka is a Japanese poetic form that differs from haiku in that there is room for […]
The Friday Influence 