Selecting a Reader Ted Kooser First, I would have her be beautiful, and walking carefully up on my poetry at the loneliest moment of an afternoon, her hair still damp at the neck from washing it. She should be wearing a raincoat, an old one, dirty from not having money enough for the cleaners. She [...]
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Selection of the prettiest
Posted in Selecting a Reader, Ted Kooser, tagged Broadway, culture, poetry, reading on July 22, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Carrying love in a wallet
Posted in Czeslaw Milosz, Falling in Love, Uncategorized, tagged culture, life, love, poetry on July 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
“Tomber amoureux. To fall in love. Does it occur suddenly or gradually? If gradually, when is the moment “already”? I would fall in love with a monkey made of rags. With a plywood squirrel. With a botanical atlas. With an oriole. With a ferret. With a marten in a picture. With the forest one sees [...]
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