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Monthly Archives: March 2009
The Dead Don’t Sing
I was feeling pretty awful the other day. It was the 17th. I know that because I picked up my Book of Common Prayer, turned to the psalm reading in the psalter for the 17th day, and read psalm 88. … Continue reading
Posted in Starting from Poetry
Tagged Emerson, God, Harold Bloom, Poems, Poetry, psalmists, psalms, reading, Stevens, Thomas Merton, Uses of Poetry, Whitman
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Ours to Love
I literally wrote myself sick last week. Mostly I think this was because I stayed awake for twenty-four hours the day of the big snowstorm to finish a series of poems, which I began perhaps a week before that. I don’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Change, Love, mumbo jumbo, Poetry, Uses of Poetry, Writing
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