Tag: Poetry

Sep 20 2019

Lines Composed a Few Yards from Schlachtensee, With Apologies to W.W.

By Doug Merrill in Autobiography, Doug, Poetry
September 20, 2019

Five years have past; five summers, with the length Of five long winters! and again I read These pages, rolled from their printing-press With a rotary hum.—Once again Do I behold those last and polished drafts That many a wild scene describe, Acts the more connected to themes And th’ arguments of the plays. The …

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Mar 20 2019

The Door by Margaret Atwood

By Doreen Sheridan in Doreen, Poetry
March 20, 2019

Morning In The Burned House is one of my favorite collections of poetry but I took my time getting to Margaret Atwood’s latest because her recent output of fiction (i.e. pretty much everything after Alias Grace) has been not great to terrible. The Door, sadly, doesn’t reach the heights of MitBH but is still a …

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Oct 22 2017

Sonnets from the Crimea by Adam Mickiewicz

By Doug Merrill in Doug, Eastern Europe, Literature, Poetry
October 22, 2017

When Tsar the Polish poet southward sent For stirring trouble and renewed dissent He took his pen — described the lands he crossed The steppes so vast, the palaces long lost Exiles who before Adam M. had gone And Muslims who so well had served their Khan Crimean shores, the mounts above them ranged The …

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May 01 2015

What Work Is by Philip Levine

By Doug Merrill in Doug, Excerpt, Poetry
May 1, 2015

What Work Is We stand in the rain in a long line waiting at Ford Highland Park. For work. You know what work is—if you’re old enough to read this you know what work is, although you may not do it. Forget you. This is about waiting, shifting from one foot to another. Feeling the …

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Jan 01 2015

Theogony / Works and Days / Shield by Hesiod

By Al Singh in Al, Literature
January 1, 2015

Hesiod’s poems, along with Homer’s epics, can be considered the bible of the ancient Greeks, but Hesiod’s works are far more religious in nature than Homer’s, both in theology and in moral doctrine. Theogony describes the origin of the gods and the world. I am not sure if Hesiod is simply recounting basic accepted beliefs …