A Year of Love Poetry, Day-by-Day

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

ONE YEAR LATER.....

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What a year it has been.... I started this project exactly one year ago with several objectives in mind.  The principal one was to create ...
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Friday, December 31, 2010

Ars Interruptus.....

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My apartment had a devastating fire on December 22, 2010, which made it uninhabitable and destroyed my poetry library (pictured below in wha...
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Thursday, December 16, 2010

In the History of Our Love - Yehuda Amichai

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With this selection, Amichai solidifies his lead as the most represented poet here.  And deservedly.  (Do "click" on his name on t...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Ancient Songs of the Women of Fez

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This comes from an anthology of women poets and a compilation of old traditional songs from the area of Fez that would be sung by a chorus o...
Friday, December 10, 2010

Doing A Filthy Pleasure Is - Gaius Petronius

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A Roman Consul, courtier, and "fashion-advisor" to Emperor Nero, Gaius Petronius  (27- 66 C.E., also known as Petronius Arbiter) ...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Explosion - Delmira Agustini

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(Note: READ the poem FIRST, before this commentary.) Delmira Agustini (1887 - 1914)... She was a rising poet in Uruguay, known for orig...
Thursday, December 2, 2010

Homage To Sextus Propertius - Ezra Pound

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Another by Ezra Pound (see other for bio info) and possibly my favorite of all of his poems, perhaps because of its accessibility and stylis...
Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Sonnet 4 - Ah when you drift hover - Berryman

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As mentioned in earlier post, John Berryman's (1914 - 1972) 115 sonnets were an accounting of the course of a love affair with a married...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Little Children’s Prayer - Galway Kinnell

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It’s always a delight when a poet of Galway Kinnell’s (1927-2014) stature addresses romantic love, particularly when better known for tyi...
Monday, November 22, 2010

The Surly One - Theodore Roethke

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If this is the only Roethke poem you will read here, you'll be doing yourself a disservice.  Pleeease "click" on his name on t...
Sunday, November 21, 2010

Sonnet 36 – (Keep your eyes open when you kiss) - John Berryman

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  Another selection from John Berryman's sonnets has been long overdue.  For some background, the 115 poems, written in the 1940s a...
Saturday, November 20, 2010

" It Is Marvellous..." - Elizabeth Bishop

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  I know that I am supposed to like Elizabeth Bishop (1911 - 1979) and I certainly respect her work - but she has never been appealing...
Thursday, November 18, 2010

Song of Yue - Song Lian

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Better known for his prose and role as a high court-official in the administration of the first Ming Dynasty Emperor, Song Lian was also cha...
Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Untitled

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Sulpicia, a Roman poetess from the 1st century BCE, is only known by her name and a handful of poems included with Tibullus’.  I am includin...
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Anonymous - Ancient Egypt

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This is another of the poems translated into English by Ezra Pound and Noel Stock from Italian text translated, in turn, from hiero...
Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Reply to "Phoenix Hairpin" (to the tune of) - Tang Wan

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This is the only translation I could find (from The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry) of Tang Wan's poem in reply to her ex-husband Lu You&...
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010

The Shen Garden - Lu You

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 This is the poem that Lu You wrote forty years after the chance meeting with his beloved, Tang Wan, as described in the previous posting (N...
Tuesday, November 2, 2010

"Phoenix Hairpin" (to the tune of) - Lu You (Song Dynasty)

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Lu You, one of the four great poets of the Southern Song Dynasty, was also half of one of the great Chinese love stories .  That story ...
Saturday, October 30, 2010

"Clean and Even Music" (to the tune of) - Emperor Li Yu

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  Li Yu, the last Emperor of the Southern Tang Dynasty, only ruled for fourteen years, but during his reign, his support of the arts made hi...
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Monday, October 25, 2010

When I Think About Why - Anonymous, Korean

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"Anonymous" has always been a prolific author across the centuries.... This one is from 16th century Korea.  Given how hand f...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Nineteen Ancient Poems - #2 - Anonymous (Chinese)

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  The "Nineteen Ancient Poems" are the earliest extant poems in the five-character meter that was the longest lasting form of...
Monday, October 11, 2010

Nameless Journey

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An Israeli poet who immigrated to Palestine in 1935 when she was in her early twenties, Goldberg had a distinguished academic career at Hebr...
Sunday, October 10, 2010

Places, Loved Ones - Philip Larkin

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The fifth selection by Philip Larkin and the one that most disturbs the Romantic - capital "R", not lower case - in me. His place ...
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Saturday, October 9, 2010

Sonnets - Actualities - I - e.e. cummings

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  The fifth selection from cummings.  I have a concern that it may be harder to understand by someone whose first language isn't English...
Wednesday, October 6, 2010

A Mutual Lullaby - Yehuda Amichai

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With this one, I think Amichai takes the lead with most poems here....  And is it any wonder? PLEASE read some of the others and you'll ...
Thursday, September 16, 2010

A Decade - Amy Lowell

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  Amy Lowell (1874-1925) came from a privileged and wealthy background, a true-blue "Boston Brahmin" who became an influential fig...
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