Monthly Archives: May 2013

I wanted to delay including this poem by Pablo Neruda until I could do my own translation of it. However, time is short, and so here is poem twenty from Veinte Poemas de Amor y Una Cancion Desesperada. The following … Continue reading →

Maya Angelou is an American poet and author, and basically one of the most baller people alive today. Instead of trying to pick among the many interesting facets of her life, I will instead quote shamelessly and directly from Wikipedia … Continue reading →

Fear not, I’m not including the entire work of the Dante’s Divine Comedy here today. A couple of weeks back, I recommended the work of the Australian critic and poet Clive James, and mentioned his recent translation of the Divine … Continue reading →

Not to quote Mr. Darcy, but “In vain have I struggled. It will not do.” I wanted to avoid the Romantic poets, because they get too much air time as it is. However, I would be amiss to exclude them … Continue reading →

I have funny feelings about Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. When I first encountered it, most traditional poetry forms felt foreign to me, and I had no idea what to do with free verse. Sometimes I feel like I am … Continue reading →

Here is the second half of the Sorley poem of yesterday, and please consider: to whom is he directing these words?: And now the fight begins again, The old war-joy, the old war-pain. Sons of one school across the sea … Continue reading →

Although Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen are the two names I see crop up most often when checking out World War I poetry, today’s selection is an extract from a longer poem of Charles Hamilton Sorley. As quoted from this … Continue reading →

Here’s today’s selection. And here is a web-comic depicting Thomas as a Writer at Work: “Do Not Go Gentle…” Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against … Continue reading →