Tag: Sappho
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noting with marilyn hacker
One of the things to note about this week’s poem, “A Note Downriver” by Marilyn Hacker, is its use of Sapphic stanzas to evoke longing via nuanced meditations. A Sapphic stanza, named after the Greek love poet Sappho, consists of three lines of eleven syllables each (with stresses on the first, fifth, and tenth syllables)…
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* the staying noise of jürgen becker
Hell, Sartre Said, Is Other People – Jürgen Becker L’heure bleu, it could be, but it’s the do-it-yourself handyman who makes the mood for his and my evening. Powerless this entire building – seventh, eleventh, fourteenth floor; the man drills into the walls, yet no one sees him. In case I see him, I’ll, I’ll…
The Friday Influence 