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Our reading selection for this month is Elizabeth Bishop's Geography III. Can't wait to see what you all think about this collection.



March: Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife

April: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese

May: Sandra Cisneros' My Wicked Wicked Ways

June: Carl Sandburg Honey and Salt

July: Mascha: The Poems of Mascha Kaléko

August: Shakespeare's sonnets

September: W. D. Snodgrass' Not for Specialists

October: Toi Derricotte's Tender

November: Franny Choi's Soft Science

December: Pablo Neruda's The Heights of Machu Picchu

Date: 2020-02-29 05:03 pm (UTC)
stonepicnicking_okapi: books (books)
From: [personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi
"12 O'clock News" was my favorite of the collection. I thought it was 'worth the price of admission,' so to speak. A very clever premise executed beautifully. I plan to do my own version (a fannish one of Sherlock Holmes's 221B Baker Street sitting room) for April (National Poetry Month). I will post more thoughts about the others, but I really enjoyed this one.
Edited Date: 2020-02-29 05:04 pm (UTC)

Date: 2020-03-01 12:50 am (UTC)
stonepicnicking_okapi: okapi (poetry)
From: [personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi
I wasn't too keen on the first poem "Waiting Room." I think it was the subject matter that put me off.

And Robinson Crusoe was sad, I agree. I mean it's hard for anyone used to adventure to return to an ordinary life and grow old.

The Moose was interesting in terms of the rhyme. It was, as you say, very subtle. So I liked the poem more for the structure than what it was talking about.

"One Art" is, maybe, the classic modern villanelle, so it sets the standard.

Thank you for posting the link about Joseph Cornell. That makes it a lot easier to understand what's going on.

The last poem is very nice, too. She has a nice way of describing ordinary moments and making profound statements about them almost offhandedly.

That's the word I'd use with a lot of it. Offhandedly. Of course that's just the way it comes across. I know it was very planned and carefully crafted. But it's sort of domestic, daily, ordinary, but very observant and insightful.


Date: 2020-03-01 02:03 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] nyctanthes
I read it! I really enjoyed it! Will post more thoughts when I have a better connection and more time. :)

Sadly, I cannot do the Duffy unless I buy her collected works. Worth it?

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