Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SURFACES AND MASKS; 8, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And as the memory of each / hard melodramatic word | ||||||||
and as the memory of each hard melodramatic word laced my mind I heard (thoughts of Shelley's Ocean's nursling plus) the language pitch of this "woebegone population"; in other words, was this still such a place? of "blearness of scrofulous children"? in a landscape of draggle-tailed pregnant women? I didn't think so. A different enchantment now held. Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SYNCOPATED CAKEWALK by CLARENCE MAJOR REVELATION AT CAP FERRAT by CLARENCE MAJOR SAND FLESH AND SKY by CLARENCE MAJOR A GUY I KNOW ON 47TH AND COTTAGE by CLARENCE MAJOR AGING TOGETHER by CLARENCE MAJOR AT THE ZOO IN SPAIN by CLARENCE MAJOR ATELIER CEZANNE by CLARENCE MAJOR BALLROOM DARK by CLARENCE MAJOR |
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