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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GHAZALS: 22, by JAMES HARRISON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maps. Maps. Maps. Venezuela, keewanaw, iceland open up Last Line: Another target in chicago, tremulous bull's-eye for hog fever. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Imaginary Conversations; Maps; Travel; Journeys; Trips | |||
Maps. Maps. Maps. Venezuela, Keewanaw, Iceland open up unfolding and when I get to them they'll look like maps. New pilgrims everywhere won't visit tombs, need living monuments to live again. But there are only tombs to visit. They left her in the rain tied to the water with cobwebs, stars stuck like burrs to her hair. I found her by her wailing. It's obvious I'll never go to Petersburg and Akhmadulina has married another in scorn of my worship of her picture. You're not fooling yourself -- if you weren't a coward you'd be another target in Chicago, tremulous bull's-eye for hog fever. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RICHARD, WHAT'S THAT NOISE? by RICHARD HOWARD LOOKING FOR THE GULF MOTEL by RICHARD BLANCO RIVERS INTO SEAS by LYNDA HULL DESTINATIONS by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE ONE WHO WAS DIFFERENT by RANDALL JARRELL THE CONFESSION OF ST. JIM-RALPH by DENIS JOHNSON SESTINA: TRAVEL NOTES by WELDON KEES TO H. B. (WITH A BOOK OF VERSE) by MAURICE BARING THE IDEA OF BALANCE IS TO BE FOUND IN HERONS AND LOONS by JAMES HARRISON |
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