W.H. Auden reading his “As I Walked Out One Evening”
A recommendation: close your eyes and listen to Auden read his “As I Walked Out One Evening”. It’s a hauntingly lovely poem and Auden’s carefully measured cadence and precise diction make its melancholic beauty all the more pronounced and moving: As I walked out one evening, Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement [...]
Hurrah, he’s human!
A wonderful little excerpt from a 1972 interview with John Berryman (published in
Amis and Auden on form and style
Yay! The Paris Review‘s site now has a complete interviews archive. Over the past few days, I’ve become quite addicted to downloading/reading interviews from the archive and thought that I’d share thematically-related and spot-on bits from two of my favorites, “The Art of Fiction: Kingsley Amis” and “The Art of Poetry: W.H. Auden”: INTERVIEWER: What [...]
W.H. Auden
W.H. Auden is one of those poets who makes me happy and grateful in a way that I can’t seem to properly explain. This fondness has been especially pronounced lately and I’ve been rereading and revisiting as much of his writing as I can. My current favorite Auden poem is “The More Loving One”: Looking [...]
His first passion of intellect
Reading one of my favorite poems, Marie Ponsot‘s “Matins and Lauds”: Excited as a sophisticated boy at his first Passion of intellect, aware and fully free Having lost title to full liberty; struck Aware, for once, as I would always be; It day and I still shaken, still sure, see It is not ring-magic nor [...]
so sweet and so cold
(This is cross-posted from my Tumblr. I love the combination of this lovely still from Godard’s Une femme mariée and the William Carlos Williams poem so much that I wanted to share it again.) William Carlos Williams’s “This Is Just To Say” I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you [...]
Moving a perhaps fraction of flower here placing an inch of air there
I’m so happy that spring is almost here! Spring and autumn are my favorite seasons: they’re full of promise and they make me feel inspired and hopeful. Plus, spring is always such a welcome relief after a long, dark, and difficult winter. I could do without the allergies, though! Ugh. Here’s a photo that I [...]
Well, he has magnificence, even so.
Hello! I’ve redesigned the site. I quite like the lighter colors. The design still needs some tweaking, but, if you see any major problems, please do let me know. Thanks! A couple things: I love it when poets write about other poets, whether in poems or in letters, etc. (& a few months ago, I [...]
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