What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
A second posting in his series for "Poetry Month":
"Despite rival claims, October is the true Poetry Month, a fact I suspected forty years ago and have subsequently confirmed. Throughout the month, on their birthdays, I will celebrate the poets of October by posting their work and writing about it. Readers are encouraged to nominate poets who meet two criteria: They were born in October, and I enjoy and admire at least one of their poems. The latter requirement eliminates from consideration James Whitcomb Riley, Dylan Thomas and Sylvia Plath."
Patrick Kurp on a Wallace Stevens poem:
ReplyDeletehttp://evidenceanecdotal.blogspot.com/2010/10/quiet-art-of-keeping-calm-house.html
A second posting in his series for "Poetry Month":
"Despite rival claims, October is the true Poetry Month, a fact I suspected forty years ago and have subsequently confirmed. Throughout the month, on their birthdays, I will celebrate the poets of October by posting their work and writing about it. Readers are encouraged to nominate poets who meet two criteria: They were born in October, and I enjoy and admire at least one of their poems. The latter requirement eliminates from consideration James Whitcomb Riley, Dylan Thomas and Sylvia Plath."
http://evidenceanecdotal.blogspot.com/2010/10/poetry-month.html