Footnote 151.22 re Sappho (From William Carlos Williams, Selected Poems, Edited by Robert Pinsky) This is a translation of Sappho’s Fragment 71. When it was published in Poems in Folio (1957), Williams included this note: I am 73 years old. … Continue reading →
A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world. — Inscription from a church in Sussex, England, 1730
For Day 3, NaPoWriMo wrote: “Today I’d like to challenge you to write an elegy – a poem that mourns or honors someone dead or something gone by. And I’d like to ask you to center the elegy on an … Continue reading →
Threw a little bit of Wales under the sky I’d started the other day. The foreground is as it was but I probably would leave it out on a do-over.
this telling of sky: •
the love it holds out to clouds •
protective of stars. Continue reading →
Make new words. Expand the lexicon. The new conditions demand a new way of thinking. The thinking demands new forms of expression. The expression generates new conditions.
