20th-Century American Poetry

DPF/Ryan

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For the give and take between reality and dreams. In this poem, she is a mime, and it is an imagined glass. #amazonlink to The Best of It: New and Selected Poems by Kay Ryan (p.54) https://amzn.to/3dmuDzn. 


from "How Successful Can She Afford to Be?" / by Kay Ryan 


Would she be glad
if it left a ring,
if she could 
add to the manifest,
passing a thing
out of the dream?




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DPF/Akhmatova

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For the saving grace of art. #amazonlink to The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova https://amzn.to/3ytLtTG


from "In Place of a Forward" for "Poem Without a Hero" / by Anna Akhmatova, translated by Judith Hemschemeyer, edited by Roberta Reeder 


     The poem does not have any third, seventh, or 
     twenty-ninth meanings.
     I shall neither change it nor explain it. 
     'What I have written -- I have written.'




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DPF/Hass

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For something other than darkness. #amazonlink to The Best American Poetry 1997 / Editor: James Tate; Series Editor: David Lehman https://amzn.to/3NSgs1g


from "Interrupted Meditation" / by Robert Hass 


I'm a little ashamed that I want to end this poem
singing, but I want to end this poem singing --




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DPF/Berryman

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For rain and wishing for the kind that doesn't flood, but calms. #amazonlink to John Berryman Collected Poems 1937-1971 https://amzn.to/3uz0hz3


from "Meditation" / by John Berryman


...summer rain
Filling the morning falls about the house. 




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DPF/Milosz

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For the witnesses, and not just for those of the worst moments, but for the whole communities of witnesses: we who all raise every child together. The author translated his own poems from the Polish in collaboration with expert friends: students and poets and peers. #amazonlink to The Collected Poems https://amzn.to/3yFWS3Z


from "Vandeans" / by Czeslaw Milosz 


She was running, basket in hand, along a path near the castle.
Armed men ordered her to leave. 
Because when prisoners are shot, witnesses are unwelcome.




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DPF/Tate

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For Marys everywhere. #amazonlink for The Eternal Ones of the Dream: Selected Poems 1990-2010 https://amzn.to/3xYR2sU. 


from "Negative Employee Situation" / by James Tate


The Huntingtons had a live-in maid
by the name of Mary. Mary was very religious
and prayed a good deal of the time. In fact,
as the years went by Mary pretty much ceased
working altogether and prayed all of the time. 
Mrs. Huntington cooked for her and cleaned her 
room as well as the rest of the house. Mr.
Huntington would never rebuke Mary because
he believed her prayers benefited the whole
household....




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DPF/Harman

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For the love of MTM/Mary Tyler Moore/Mary Richards and her writers' perfect chronicling of one female, single and hard-working associate news producer in Minneapolis' 1970-1977. In case you missed it, here's your #amazonlink: (DVD's/of course, I own these) https://amzn.to/3I07XzJ or (single episode or seasons) https://amzn.to/3yqswSQ


from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Third Episode" / by Michele Pizarro Harman


...Daughter to the black box, become
an invention. Melt out the edges of your own signed and numbered print. 


with many thanks to:
the Antioch Review, Winter 1988, Volume 56, Number 1
https://antiochcollege.edu/antioch-review/about/

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DPF / King

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For poets of all walks of life, from a poet in his own right.

from I Have A Dream / by Martin Luther King Jr.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, ‘Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!’