Word: poem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...probably caused by arson. On Saturday, Santa Barbara was declared a federal disaster area. Fifteen years of daily notes and books half written, of statues and photos and memories, were gone. My only solace came from the final irony. In the manuscript I had saved, I had quoted the poem of the 17th century Japanese wanderer Basho, describing how destruction can sometimes bring a kind of clarity...
...What gets to me about that theme," Thomas tells his visitor, "is that it takes many directions but basically it's all one thing: falling." That reminds him of a Rilke poem, Autumn. "The leaves are falling," he says in singsong paraphrase, playing the passage again, "falling from on high as if from heaven's dying orchards. And each leaf falls with its own special gesture of denial, saying...
...first part of the privately funded project, each child will be given a small piece of colored paper on which to draw a picture or write a poem or statement about his or her own culture or ethnic heritage...
...woman's bottom, he has written very little during the past two years. He considers this curtailment of his vocation as a "contribution to emergency times." Says he: "When you are in a situation like Peru's today, you can't change it with a novel or a poem...
...elegiac title poem Westward is about another journey, from London's Euston Station by rail toward the Western Isles of Scotland. Contemplating Margaret Thatcher's England, she reflects on the "frayed-/ out gradual of the retreat from empire." The Prairie is a reverie, expressed with extreme simplicity, on the peregrinations of her forebears from the Midwest to California and back again. "To be landless, half a nomad, nowhere wholly/ at home, is to discover, now, an epic theme/ in going back," she concludes. Clampitt is wisest when she is plainest. At her best, she writes poetry that, in Marianne Moore...