Tag: Sestets
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* souling with charles wright
August always has me revisiting Charles Wright’s work as well as the work of other August babies like me. This week’s poem is from his book Sestets in which he does marvels six lines at a time. Here, he takes us from a sunset sky to an implication of the soul as a canary and the […]
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* a stone’s throw memory with charles wright
This week I’d like to celebrate Charles Wright being named the new U.S. Poet Laureate. I’ve always suspected him to be an introvert, but his reaction to the news sinches it: At times self-effacing, Wright shies away from the public eye and was reluctant to take the post. “My wife kept nudging me to do […]
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* snow! with Charles Wright
Snow is starting to become a regular thing in our neighborhood. Ani and I remarked on (read: laughed at) our mutual inexperience earlier this week when we began to see little bits of the stuff flying about one afternoon. What is that? Is that fluff? Gotta be, like cotton, or foam, something, right? I won’t […]
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