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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON BRODSKY'S COLLECTED, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Signature in a paperback / arresting your copious Subject(s): Brodsky, Joseph (1940-1996) | |||
"With all tenderness and affection" —from J. Brodsky to M. Harper; inscribed in Less than One: Selected Essays, October 12, 1988 Signature in a paperback arresting your copious annotations on "September 1, 1939" (exegetical in the extreme) extreme unction of the heart such lucid heartwork without translation bright bed and breakfast in macabre Providence very unPoelike for I have read your EnglishAmerican (as you read your RussianSoviet) to a vast audience of scientists in the graduated labs of Barus & Holly a valiant pant across participles the psychic hum of all lingua you intuited "for language is the only homeland" metaphysician of this psychograph an interrogation sutures of blood and song your generous taxonomies in cavernous secret vena cava First Published in The Kenyon Review, Volume 23 #2 (Spring 2001). www.kenyonreview.org/roth | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CAPUT MORTUUM by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON THERE IS NO NATURAL RELIGION (A) by WILLIAM BLAKE OF A BAD SINGER; EPIGRAM by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE AT LAST by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER CONTENT; WRITTEN OFF ITHACA by ALFRED AUSTIN TO THE NIGHTINGALE by PHILIP AYRES |
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