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Tag Archives: Change
The Newest Difference
This week started out slowly, that is, if I begin my week just after the last blog post. Not the posting of the presentation I gave as part of the Faculty Association professional development panel, but the one called And … Continue reading
Posted in On Fiction, On the Novel, Sabbatical
Tagged 40-something, Adam Penna, Carl Jung, Change, fiction, Joseph Campbell, Jungian, Marc McGurl, men of faith, non-fiction, novel, Novelist, philosophy, Poetry, poets, religion, Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken, Turning 40, Writing
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On Poetry & Change
I fear that I’m not a very good friend sometimes. I can be thoughtless and absentminded, and even when I think to call the people I love–and I do love them–the phone seems suddenly to weigh ten tons, and I … Continue reading
Posted in Starting from Poetry
Tagged Auden, chance, Change, character, Emerson, family, fate, fortune, friendship, John Berryman, Love, luck, magnanimity, Poems, Poetry, shelter island, sore loser
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Sabbatical
I started this blog to correspond with my sabbatical, which began officially in January and ended when I taught my first class in September. It was a rough few days the first week, and I’m still not altogether used to … Continue reading
Posted in Starting from Poetry
Tagged Change, English, Poems, Poetry, poets, professors, Revise, Revision, Sabbatical, Uses of Poetry, Writing
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On Poetic Insight
I listened to a good friend and a fine poet lecture on teaching writing a few weeks ago. I was impressed especially by how she goes about teaching. Her pedagogy is very similar to mine, and I chalk that up … Continue reading
Posted in Starting from Poetry
Tagged Change, God, Insight, Poems, Poetry, reading, Rilke, the spirit, Uses of Poetry, Writing
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A Few Thoughts After a Long Trip
It is part of the poet’s job to get used to his inner rhythms, those seemingly predictable patterns which, from a distance, map his temperament. I was reading some old poems yesterday and found that, as I have always hoped, the new poems … Continue reading
Posted in Starting from Poetry
Tagged Augustine, Change, Poems, Poetry, Rembrandt, Revision, Traveling, Uses of Poetry, Writing
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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
Posted in Starting from Poetry
Tagged Change, Love, mumbo jumbo, Poetry, Uses of Poetry, Writing
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Revise, Revise
At the end of Rilke’s poem on the busted up bust of Apollo, he concludes: You must change your life. The idea is that, after looking at this vital work of art, one that retains all its power despite or even … Continue reading
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