Heel-bone and heart-thud
A poet ages.…
What sticks with me
What sticks with me from a graduate seminar in American Puritan Literature. I don't remember how we wandered so far afield, but I'm glad we did. > Thomas Kinsella has died. A poet of Ireland, he reinvigorated Irish poetry. His poem, a Butchers Dozen (linked here)…
Poetry and Baking
Maria Popova spies John Keats combining the two. > “The best of Men have… a kind of spiritual yeast in their frames which creates the ferment of existence — by which a Man is propell’d to act and strive and buffet with Circumstance.” Keats, born on this day in 1795,…
One poet on another
> “Yeats sometimes gave the impression of being even a worse idiot than I am.” —Ezra Pound https://t.co/6QLqxLNCDN — The Paris Review (@parisreview) May 8, 2019 [https://twitter.com/parisreview/status/1126049600211697665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]…
It's almost in here
> “Perhaps the best way to keep the spirits of loved ones alive is to allow them to continue living within us.” —Rita Dove on Ted Kooser’s beautiful “Parents” https://t.co/NbhymmnkiF — Bill O'Sullivan (@billmatto) November 25, 2018 [https://twitter.com/billmatto/status/1066719927493685248?ref_src=…
Memorizing poetry
http://bookmania.me/post/177868454677/litafficionado-in-my-poetry-class-ive-always…
Donald Hall
> I just learned Donald Hall died last night. He was 89. Below is his poem "Affirmation" "To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes..." Here's the story: https://t.co/PGvDjMfWiB…
The rough beast rises
> "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold" A surge in quotes fm Yeats' The Second Coming https://t.co/H6tB8JhPWv & https://t.co/M9bX0HzHs7 — Michiko Kakutani (@michikokakutani) June 9, 2017 [https://twitter.com/michikokakutani/status/873085265991970817]…