I just got a present from a Chilean friend of mine. It’s a brass key chain of a miner’s hat, now a tchotchke representing the miraculous rescue of the trapped miners. And because I have poetry on my mind this month, I thought of Pablo Neruda. I knew only two things about Neruda, he was [...]
Archive for July, 2011
Pablo Neruda
Posted in Random Thoughts on July 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Walt Whitman
Posted in Uncategorized on July 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
When I think American poets, I think Walt Whitman mainly because I studied Whitman in school within the context of ‘Great American Poets’. What I remember is Leaves of Grass and that he self-published it and it was controversial. Leafing through a copy, here’s today’s poem. Perfections by Walt Whitman Only themselves understand themselves and [...]
Poetry Appreciation Month
Posted in Narrative, Random Thoughts on July 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I’ve never really appreciated poetry, mainly because of bad flashbacks from Mr. Emma’s High School English class. He made a valiant effort to get his students to appreciate Dickinson and Walt Whitman, however, it didn’t stick. Hindsight says that I was too young and too inexperienced to understand the depth of emotion and nuance poetry [...]
