1st august 2005
passed the vile baton of the poisonous meme

Once 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.
Anyway, in no order at all:

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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