"Saturday Night as an Adult" by Anne Carson
An internet kerfuffle earlier this week offered some intriguing insights into generational gaps and the current book scene.
On June 5, at 9:52 a.m., New Yorker cultural writer Hannah Williams posted an off-handed tweet about Canadian-poet-in-exile Anne Carson, stating that she found herself thinking often of a short piece of prose poetry published a few years prior in the New…
View On WordPress
2 notes
·
View notes
I Could Die Today and Live Again, Summer Farah
640 notes
·
View notes
"The Sea" by James Reeves
A poem doesn’t have to be complicated to be wonderful.
Poetry can be simple. It can also be quiet profound. It’s often both, at the same time. It gives voice to the world around us, in all its incomprehensible wonder and vastness. It helps us to position ourselves within us, writing hymns and lamentations and sonnets and odes to the starry dynamos of night, the wind whispering through the…
View On WordPress
0 notes
"Summer is growing old and everything is flowing into a single melancholy murmur"
~ Tomas Tranströmer, from "The Cuckoo"
1K notes
·
View notes
thinking about seasonal writing cycles—how human the experience to be stunned by a realization you’ve made each year, feeling as though it’s the first.
schuylerpeck / instagram: hiitssky
653 notes
·
View notes
The summer night glowed; in the field fireflies were glinting. And for those who understood such things, the stars were sending messages.
Louise Glück, from Midsummer in 'Poems 1962-2012’
1K notes
·
View notes
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, from "Baked Goods", Lucky Fish (published in 2011)
8K notes
·
View notes