The Art Of Poetry Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) To look at the river made of time and water and remember that time is another river, to know that we lose ourselves like the river and that faces go by like the water. To feel that wakefulness is another sleep that dreams it is not dreaming […]
Eating Poetry* (VIII) – Our Other History
From The Great World by David Malouf: He was speaking of poetry itself, of the hidden part it played in their lives… How it spoke up, not always in the plainest terms, since that wasn’t always possible, but in precise ones just the same, for what is deeply felt and might otherwise go unrecorded: all […]
Eating Poetry* (VII): for the New Year
Be Drunk Charles Baudelaire Translated by Louis Simpson You have to be always drunk. That’s all there is to it—it’s the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk. But on what? Wine, poetry or […]
Eating Poetry* (VI)
William Carlos Williams This Is Just To Say I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold *Ink runs from the corners of my mouth There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry. […]
Eating Poetry (V)*
Poem: “Forgetfulness,” read by its author, poet Billy Collins Animation by Julian Grey of Headgear Produced by JWTNY *Ink runs from the corners of my mouth There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry. ~Mark Strand, “Eating Poetry,” Reasons for Moving, 1968