1st august 2005Once more from the crapulous geegaw, but this time it's a bit easier somehow, working out one's ten favourite poems. Although what I treasure most are not whole poems but lines or phrases, like gong-tormented sea or and the big planets hanging or as the team's head-brass flashed out on the turn or bee-loud glade; or a bird came down the walk, or pluck the strings of our insipid lutes. Gary Snyder - Axe Handles
James Joyce - She Weeps Over Rahoon Wallace Stevens - Le Monocle de Mon Oncle James Elroy Flecker - The Old Ships John Berryman - Dream Song #171 Randall Jarrell - The Woman at the Washington Zoo Rilke - Autumn Day Louis MacNeice - Autumn Journal Edward Thomas - Adlestrop Robert Lowell - Skunk Hour
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