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Journal: Poems for January, Roque Dalton
Like You Roque Dalton (translated by Jack Hirschman) Like you I love love, life, the sweet smell of things, the sky- blue landscape of January days. And my blood boils up and I laugh through eyes that...
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Journal: Poems for November, Han Shan
From the Cold Mountain poems, translated by Gary Snyder Cold Mountain is a house Without beams or walls. The six doors left and right are open The hall is sky blue. The rooms all vacant and vague The...
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Journal: Letter in November, Sylvia Plath
‘Letter in November’, by Sylvia Plath Love, the world Suddenly turns, turns color. The streetlight Splits through the rat’s tail Pods of the laburnum at nine in the morning. It is the Arctic, This...
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Lost and found
Photograph copyright K Hari Krishnan (Wikipedia) (Disclaimer: I am not a poet and don’t write poems. This was an accident from 2006; Peter Griffin reminded me yesterday of its existence. It does not...
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Booklove: Seamus Heaney – The Singer’s House
(Published in the Business Standard, September 3, 2013) The day Seamus Heaney died, a small, astonishing thing happened. Poetry, this secret so many of us readers had hugged to ourselves, […]
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Speaking Volumes: A quartet of poets
(Published in the Business Standard, June 20, 2011; one of the last mainstream papers left in India where you can send in an 800-word column on poetry and not be told to go write about Chetan Bhagat.)...
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The Books Column: "Poems good enough to eat": Adrienne Rich
(Published in the Business Standard, April 2012. Rich was the first poet I read who gave me a blueprint for how to live, allowing me–and so many other women–to imagine what our lives could be, if we...
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