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 [...]
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 [...]
My business is words
One of my favorite poems: Anne Sexton‘s “Said the Poet to the Analyst”: My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees. I confess I am only broken by the sources of things; as if words were counted like dead bees in the attic, unbuckled from their yellow eyes [...]
Poem of the Week #1
Poem of the Week- T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, part one Each week, I’m going to choose one of my favorite poems, discuss it, offer up an interpretation, analyze it, comment upon it, etc. I’d might as well put those degrees in English Literature to good use ;) If you’re so inclined, I’d love to [...]
The books poured forth (repost from my previous blog)- August 2009
(Originally posted on my previous blog in August 2009) I love the idea of poets writing about other poets, especially when one poet writes an elegy for another. I find that these poems often offer beautifully written insights about emotions, relationships, connections, estrangement, the complicated nature of human interaction, love, etc. And elegies written by [...]
