This bird’s from The Penguin Book of Women Poets, ed. by Carol Cosman, Joan Keefeand, and Kathleen Weaver. That’s two birds in one. 🙂
from Selected Epigrams / by Kassia, trans. by Patrick Diehl
A nun’s life — free as a bird.
Month: April 2014
DPF / Shvarts
For Bird Week. Maybe not the raven you were expecting. This one’s from Contemporary Russian Poetry, edited by Gerald S. Smith, 1993.
from The Raven / by Elena Shvarts, trans. by Gerald S. Smith
An old Raven asked for my heart
To take away to its baby ravens
DPF / Thoreau
Birds this week. Needing a bluebird of happiness today. Best known for Walden, he was a poet first. Â http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/601
from The Bluebirds / by Henry David Thoreau
In the midst of the poplar that stands by the door,
We planted a bluebird box
DPF / Collins
For this week’s back-to-work theme, an easy one: birds. This one’s from Bright Wings, the anthology edited by Billy Collins with paintings by David Allen Sibley. Less than eight months to Christmas. 🙂
from Christmas Sparrow / by Billy Collins
breathing there
among the metallic angels, ceramic apples, stars of yarn
DPF / Gallagher
Thematically last for the week:Â American poet, writing in the 1980’s, and a woman. This one’s from her book, Instructions to the Double, 1976.
from Cows, A Vision / by Tess Gallagher
The cows were never born. They came
with the land
DPF / Waldman
Another: woman, American, writing in the 1980’s. This one’s from her book Countries, published in 1980. http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/523
from Van Gogh’s Room / by Anne Waldman
green window
red blanket
blue door
DPF / Bang
Another American poet, another woman writing in the 1980’s. I have been to Spain, but my only earthquakes were in Los Angeles and one felt as far south as North County San Diego. http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/548
from The Earthquake She Slept Through / by Mary Jo Bang
She slept through the earthquake in Spain.
The day after was full of dead things.
DPF / Salter
And, another American poet, a woman, and a woman writing in the 1980’s. Harvard, Cambridge, The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Atlantic Monthly, New Republic, Japan and a smile as enigmatic as Ms. Sarandon’s. As well, this one’s thematically linked to the previous one.
from Home Movies: A Sort of Ode / by Mary Jo Salter
What happened between him and her
is another story. And just as well
we have no movie of it
DPF / Olds
Another American poet, another woman writing in the 1980’s. This one’s from *my* book, The Gold Cell, from 1987. She and I couldn’t be more different as writers; however, if you look into anything deeply enough, your mind will offer up connections.
from I Go Back to May 1937 / by Sharon Olds
I want to go up to them and say Stop,
don’t do it — she’s the wrong woman,
he’s the wrong man
DPF / Graham
An American poet who also happens to be a woman and who also happened to be writing in the 1980’s.
from The Dream of the Unified Field / by Jorie Graham
black, shiny, twirling on its single stem,
rooting, one foot on the earth,
twisting and twisting —
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