Robert Herrick 1591-1674  Herrick is a poet I have loved since my early twenties, but I’m not sure how I found him. Perhaps in a Norton Anthology? Or Ezra Pound’s...
Read MoreThomas Hardy These are perfect sonnets by the master. His thought is crabbed, his metre a little eccentric at times, so that he reminds me of Emily Dickinson, but also...
Read MoreTim Congdon Tim sent me this in February of 2008. I will miss him. He ‘tore through the iron gates of time’. My love to Zach, who lost a father. The rest of us lost...
Read MoreThis is the apocalyptic, visionary Whitman, the Whitman who is akin to Rimbaud’s Illuminations. Here, in a single stanza he goes from a vision of ice to a vision...
Read MoreHayden Carruth, 1921-2008 The Last Poem in the World Would I write it if I could? Bet your glitzy ass I would. Â Like many poets my age I first encountered Hayden...
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THE MAN WHO CAN'T DIE
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