Poems from a lover of Lou Andreas-Salome. Sis inspired the ones about childhood and loneliness.
He uses patterns of rhythm and rhyme and sounds, withouPoems from a lover of Lou Andreas-Salome. Sis inspired the ones about childhood and loneliness.
He uses patterns of rhythm and rhyme and sounds, without being locked into them. The form plays with the content, flirts with repetition, then breaks it for effect. He is, for me, The Poet. Rilke is not my favorite poet, but if I had to say who comes closest to my favorite kind of poetry, it's him....more
I was not impressed with Reid's selection. Also, he stretches the category of 'story' ridiculously wide.I was not impressed with Reid's selection. Also, he stretches the category of 'story' ridiculously wide....more
LOVED this. Often I can't summon the energy to devote myself to poetry, but these poems sprang out and demanded I pay attention. From the first poem oLOVED this. Often I can't summon the energy to devote myself to poetry, but these poems sprang out and demanded I pay attention. From the first poem on I was hooked. Her themes accomodate both wit and melodrama while her language trips along with sweet ease.
I wasn't equally in love with each piece of course. The first book has a lot of melancholy stuff about death and longing, which was nice but not particularly interesting to me at this moment. Then the second book bored me a bit with all this tralala so light and free and so above monogamy... Historically interesting, but again, didn't click with me. The pieces that shook me up and down were the ones about how to deal with beauty. Sometimes it is too much, and as a paltry human you cannot properly meet it - she describes that frustration and overwhelmedness perfectly.
I am waylaid by Beauty. Who will walk Between me and the crying of the frogs? Oh, savage Beauty, suffer me to pass.
Also, the pieces about longing for water and for travel are golden...
My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing; Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going....more
Drama: awesome. Form: pleasurable. Theme: Got a little fed up with all that personifying nature/alackadaying that nature can't be personified. Here's Drama: awesome. Form: pleasurable. Theme: Got a little fed up with all that personifying nature/alackadaying that nature can't be personified. Here's the best antidote:
It's a strange courage you give me, ancient star:
Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part! I Shine alone, shine nakedly, shine like bronze that reflects neither my face nor any inner part of my being, shine like fire, that mirrors nothing. II Lend no part to any humanity that suffuses you in its own light. Be not chimera of morning, Half-man, half-star. Be not an intelligence, Like a widow's bird Or an old horse.
WALLACE STEVENS Nuances of a Theme by Williams...more
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