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Posts Tagged poetry

Poetry Tuesday: Anne Sexton

I have several other very important posts to write concerning the holidays and foodstuffs, but first: a sampling of Anne Sexton.  I recently checked out her complete poems from the library.  While for my tastes she is a little overly verbose and narrative in her writing, she has created some brilliant poems and I would [...]


Poetry Tuesday: Ode to Anne Carson

Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, professor, and translator, among her many identities. Her writing is spellbinding to me, and also intimidating - I think she is a genius, and have been collecting her various books of poetry, prose poetry, essays and other writings over the years. On this gloomy Tuesday, after an [...]


Discovered while buried in research: once, and some words

I have come to the conclusion that the musical Once has made it up to the top of my list of favourite films. If you haven’t seen it yet, I highly recommend it. I feel that it was amazing to the point of being life changing - I have seen it twice already [...]


Naeem Murr’s “My Poet”

Great piece:
Loving my Poet as I do, though, I try hard to understand what a poet is. The first clue lies in the fact that my Poet—every poet—is an insomniac. My own reads or wanders about our apartment for the best part of most nights. She told me she often feels she would give up [...]