Month: juni 2018

Reading: The Work Of Happiness by May Sarton
May Sarton (1912-1995) was a very prolific writer of novels, journals and poetry. She kept reinventing herself and wrote until she was very old. According to literary critics, she is an important contemporary American author. This time, I found a poem she wrote about happiness: The work of happiness I thought of happiness, how it ...
Reading: Eating Together by Li-Young Lee
Li-Young Lee (b. 1957) is a American poet born to Chinese exiles. His father, who plays an important role in his poetry, was the personal physician to Mao Zedong. His poetry has been compared to John Keats, Rilke and Roethke and he was influenced by old Chinese poems like Tu Fu, which shows in his economic use ...
Reading: Currying the Fallow-Colored Horse by Lucie Brock-Broido
Lucie Brock-Broido (1956-2018) was an American poet who said that a poem is a 'thing that wounds'. Her poetry looks and sounds original, but she was influenced by Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens. Currying the Fallow-Colored Horse And to the curious I say, Don’t be naïve. The soul, like a trinket, is a she. I ...
Sometimes, perversion of perversion is the closest we can get to perfection .
Meditation on freedom
Breathe in and think about a beginning. How to start a meditation on freedom? Do we have an entry point, a route that we can follow? Let's clear our head of all that has been said about freedom. Smile. We are going to choose freely what we mean by freedom here. We are gaming ourselves. ...
Het rottend ooft
Een van de gevleugelde uitspraken van wijlen mijn moeder was "het rottend ooft wordt mij in de schoot geworpen". Wanneer er in mijn ouderlijk huis fruit over was werd dit altijd opgegeten, en belandde op mijn moeders bord, die het schoorvoetend verorberde. Ik ben dankbaar zo grondig geconditioneerd hebben om nooit eten weg te gooien. ...
Bird
Oh beguiling creature, I will observe you quietly without the desire to know your scientific name, or how many there are of you. I will follow you in your flight, I will look at the color of your feathers, or at the mournful bend of your beak, and call you that. I will listen to ...
Reading: Dusk by Rae Armantrout
Rae Armantrout (b. 1947) is one of the founding members of the West Coast group of Language poets (language poetry: started in the 1970s; language dictates meaning; reader participates in constructing meaning) . Her poetry is characterized by the clashes of the elements they are composed of. She has said that she is seeking to ...