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...I LOOKED FOR LIFE AND DID A SHADOW SEE by JAMES GALVIN THE CRY OF THE HUMAN by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING EPILOGUE TO DRAMATIS PERSONAE by ROBERT BROWNING A LEGEND OF THE NORTHLAND by PHOEBE CARY CHANGED by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE SKELETON IN ARMOR by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW FULFILLMENT by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS THE KISS TO THE FLAG by JEAN FRANCOIS VICTOR AICARD TO MY OLD COAT by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER THE CEREMONY OF THE PRINTER'S APPRENTICE; A GERMAN MORALITY PLAY by WILLAM BLADES |
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