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Tag Archives: Emerson
On Eloquence*
I don’t subscribe entirely to the notion that there is nothing new to say under the sun. Though the human predicament hasn’t changed much in the last ten thousand years – we suffer ourselves to be born, navigate through a … Continue reading
Posted in Starting from Poetry
Tagged "The Dead", Adam Penna, CG Jung, Cormac McCarthy, Eloquence, Emerson, Hamlet, Hart Crane, John Berryman, Joyce, Poems, Poetry, Shakespeare, The Road, Tim Miller
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Yays & Nays: Making Love and Meaning Out of Nothing at All*
When SKG asked me to participate in this panel (or, rather, when I volunteered), I was pretty sure I knew what I was going to talk about. Early in my career here, at Suffolk, I was told there was no difference, … Continue reading
Posted in essays, Panel Discussions, Presentations
Tagged Adam Penna, Emerson, FASCC, Fiction in the Program Era, Francis Bacon, Look Homeward Angel, Marc McGurl, NYSUT, NYU, Poems, Poetry, pragmatism, Professors on Wheels, ralph waldo emerson, Regan, Risk, Suffolk County Community College, Thomas Wolfe, Unionism
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On Faith, Not-Faith, Poetry & Death*
A poet is constantly in a state of reassessment as long as he desires to be a vital presence, whether on the page or in the world. So I have continuously and obsessively turned the object, the diamond of poetry, … Continue reading
Posted in Starting from Poetry
Tagged death, Dickinson, divorce, Emerson, faith, grandparents, grief, Hamlet, hope, Li Po, life, literature, Pascal, philosophy, Poems, Poetry, Rilke, Schopenhauer, Shakespeare, Song of Myself, Tu Fu, Whitman, wisdom, Writing
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On an “Original Relation to the Universe”
“Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?” –from Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson On a short walk this morning†, I noticed that ghostly day-moon above me and began to think of those wonderful Stevens’ poems, where … Continue reading
Posted in Choosings & Leavings
Tagged Emerson, God, moon, nature, nature ralph waldo emerson, poets, ralph waldo emerson, universe, walking, walks, Wallace Stevens, zucchini, zucchini flowers
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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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On the Lowly
A.R. Ammons’ poem “Still” reminds us that nothing in the world is lowly, and that everything is in “surfeit of glory.” And finally he concludes that even the most seemingly lowly things, from beggars to ticks, are “magnificent with being.” … Continue reading
On Little Songs & Lyrics to Genji
Next month, S4N Books releases my first full-length collection of poems, Little Songs & Lyrics to Genji. Actually, the book contains not one full-length collection, but two long sequences. The first, “Little Songs,” is a series of sonnet-like poems presented … Continue reading
Posted in Starting from Poetry
Tagged Adam Penna, books, Emerson, faith, Little Songs, long poems, Lyrics to Genji, meditations, Poems, Poetry, publishers, publishing, readers, S4N Books, sequences, the spirit, Uses of Poetry, Whitman
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On “Can Creative Writing Be Taught?”
This week in the New Yorker Louis Menand reviews a book called The Program Era by Marc McGurl. According to Menand, the book attempts to make the argument – and I’m simplifying here – that the proliferation of creative writing programs has not only affected the way we write … Continue reading
Posted in Starting from Poetry
Tagged Creative Writing, Eliot, Emerson, faith, genius, greatness, humility, Kafka, Menand, MFA, Poetry, teaching, the spirit, Whitman
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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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On Greatness
There seems to be an anxiety felt by the Baby Boomer generation that the world, when they have gone, will cease to be. It must be a consequence of their belief that the world, before they entered it, didn’t exist. … Continue reading
Posted in Starting from Poetry
Tagged Baby Boomers, David Orr, Emerson, greatness, NY Times, Obama, Poetry
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