Tag: winter

• surviving & Ikkyū

  This week I’m sharing a set of 5 poems by Japanese Zen Buddhist monk and poet, Ikkyū. I am unable to attribute a translator to these as they have come to this post in a haphazard way. Let me explain. I wrote these poems down while at work one day back in 2011. More specifically,…

  José Angel Araguz

  December 25, 2020

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• * wintering with tomas tranströmer

  We’ve had some steady days of clouds making their way over us. The early mornings have been looking something like this: In my work, I’ve been working with repetition in some recent poems of mine, trying to incorporate repeating words and images conceptually. The poem below by Tomas Tranströmer is a good model for what I…

  José Angel Araguz

  December 19, 2014

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• * Rilke, winter & the friday influence

  I am almost done with The Complete French Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke.  Fascinating stuff.  Rilke wrote something like 400 poems in French towards the end of his life.  Basically a whole Collected Works in another language.  He approached his poems in French in the spirit of starting over in a way that he couldn’t…

  José Angel Araguz

  January 4, 2013

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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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