And here's the second one.
Shell Life
Listen,
when a snail dies, its home
fills with sea-sound. Hold it
to your ear all day,
you won’t hear a single word of grief.
Who knows why we haven’t thought of this?
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I'd add the word NO in front of the word FEAR
What words (especially poems) bring you back to yourself? Does writing take you to your center? Do you read in another language and/or writers in translation? I like the work of it all, because when I'm doing it, I don't think I should be doing something else. Poetry 'places' me, so I can locate my Self. I'm a language-is-music person, so I'm getting it by ear. I'd like to share some responses. Feel free to do the same.
My Poem Blog, daily poems, revisions, ideas about words
Translation Projects
- Alda Merini, poema delle croce (poem of the cross), Corpo d'amore (body of love), and Magnificat
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I'd add the word NO in front of the word FEAR
Poets & Other Writers I keep on my shelf AND read
- Poetry And The Fate Of The Senses, Susan Stewart. Her first chapter is titled, In The Darkness and is broken into 3 sections, "The Privations of Night and the Origins of Poiesis," Laughter, Weeping, andthe Order of the Senses," and "The Lyric Eidos." What's not to like here?
- Poetry In Theory: An Anthology 1900-2000. My friend Anne D. put me on to this one. I've only read Kenneth Burke's essay on making symbols so far. Burke's prose is dense, but gave me a chance to flex my freewrite and deconstruction muscles!
- Linda Gregg's, All Of It Singing
- The Poets' Dante, essays on Dante by a wide range of poets, edited by Peter S. Hawkins and Rachel Jacoff.
- Marcel Proust, Swann's Way (and maybe the other 6 volumes) Lydia Davis, trans., finished Swann's Way. Haven't moved on. Hoping I'll read next volume in September!
- Italo Calvino's, Difficult Loves. I keep this around for rereading.
- Italo Calvino's, Six Memoes for a new Millenium
- Ovid's poetry of exile (in translation)
- Alda Merini, A Rage of Love (translated by Pasquale Verdicchio)
- Bartolo Cattafi, Winter Fragments (translated by Rina Ferrarelli), these poems trigger me.
- Marie Howe, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time
- Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven
About Me
- mimzerella
- First poem at age 8, "Seabreeze," First Epic poem at age 12, "Tale of a Scots Maiden." Managed to finally finish an MFA in Literature and Writing (Poetry). Lots of life went on in between. I once heard an East Indian writer say that poetry is the telescope and the miscroscope of humanity. I got the instruments correct, of that I'm sure. (I'll try to track down his name.) Meanwhile, I'm trying to use them as well as I can.
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Sweet.
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