mcl @lightumbreIla
quickly aging here ~~~ musician, MFA student @ CU Boulder linktr.ee/mcleger Joined October 2021-
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Thomas Pynchon is a phenomenal poet
no poem wrecks me like this poem wrecks me Wisława Szymborska (1923-2012)
We’ve been locked in the world’s box, love sets us free, time kills us. —Adam Zagajewski
really enjoyed the Paris Review daily poem today ~ "That whatever I take in my hands, I look like I am selling something."
Columbia is broken, CUNY is burning, Rafah stands starving at the brink of massacre: for a May Day in the blackened, rotten heart of empire, I can only give you the bracken-dust of my heart's dead forests. May we hope again. Claes Oldenburg"Empire" ("Papa") Ray Gun-1959
“The Old Man” by George Oppen
“The Old Man” by George Oppen https://t.co/8kuAB5Yfkq
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Robert Hass • The Apple Trees at Olema
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Juan Larrea ~ Heaven heaven engineer my friend / you will build a sailboat with the breath that animates me
Helen Vendler gives her definition of poetry
In an interview with The Paris Review in 1975, poet James Wright was asked the seemingly innocent question, "Do you rewrite [poems] and prune them?" He gave the best answer ever:
Today's Poetry Thread: CHILDHOOD This one by Louise Glück haunts me perfectly. Feel free to add poems.
Here, you said in school. Present. - Diane Seuss
“I should be in awe of the living.” A poem by Hieu Minh Nguyen.
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no poem wrecks me like this poem wrecks me Wisława Szymborska (1923-2012)
We’ve been locked in the world’s box, love sets us free, time kills us. —Adam Zagajewski
I love that Ashbery returned to St. Ursula multiple times in his later poems, including one of my favorites, "Instead of Losing" poets.org/poem/instead-l…
sailing into what must be the ineffable John Ashbery
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Columbia is broken, CUNY is burning, Rafah stands starving at the brink of massacre: for a May Day in the blackened, rotten heart of empire, I can only give you the bracken-dust of my heart's dead forests. May we hope again. Claes Oldenburg"Empire" ("Papa") Ray Gun-1959
“The Old Man” by George Oppen
🔳 Paul Auster, R.I.P. “As my friend George Oppen once said to me, about getting old, 'what a strange thing to happen to a little boy'"
🔳 Paul Auster, R.I.P. “As my friend George Oppen once said to me, about getting old, 'what a strange thing to happen to a little boy'"
“the sky is blue because. / The plants are watered green because. / That silver hair on your head, / so many impossible strands!” — Bee Morris
“What is it that shadows give each other?” — Alejandra Pizarnik; tr. Yvette Siegert
RIP to Paul Auster, whose translations have meant the world to me. Here are two snippets from Joseph Joubert in Auster’s translation
“Apolitical Intellectuals,” by the revolutionary Guatemalan poet Otto René Castillo hits so damn hard
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