Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON BRODSKY'S COLLECTED, by MICHAEL S. HARPER 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 | Other Poems of Interest...THE MERCY OF LAZARUS by STEPHEN DOBYNS CALLING DREAMS by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON TWO POEMS FROM THE WAR: 2 by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH ARMY CORRESPONDENT'S LAST RIDE; FIVE FORKS, APRIL 1, 1865 by GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND THE EARLY PRIMROSE by HENRY KIRKE WHITE THE ROSE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH BETTY TO HERSELF by EDWARD W. BANNARD |
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