Tag: Yeats
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* an apologetic annotated anatomy of a reading
This past Tuesday night I had the pleasure of taking part in Pretty Owl Poetry’s Online Reading Series. The reading/interview was conducted through Google+ and was a blast despite a few technical difficulties. Because of the nature of the interview – specifically the part in which I am given permission to ramble and bumble in…
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* a more passionate saying with joel oppenheimer
I don’t revise much these days…except in the interest of a more passionate syntax (Yeats) These words by Yeats were said later in his life to poet John Berryman on their one and only meeting. The idea in them is fascinating, the great poet having gotten to a point where the technical matters got down…
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* throwing things on the floor with Jim Harrison & John Keats
In reading Jim Harrison’s novel The English Major last month, I came across the following and it brought tears – I have been much for tears these days – and mainly because I have been slowly going over poems I have memorized, seeing what stuck and what fell off, and was suddenly surprised to recognize the…
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* pennies, memory, & the friday influence
Brown Penny – WB Yeats I whispered, ‘I am too young,’ And then, ‘I am old enough’; Wherefore I threw a penny To find out if I might love. ‘Go and love, go and love, young man, If the lady be young and fair.’ Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, I am looped in the…
The Friday Influence 