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Saturday Night by Alicia Ostriker : The Poetry Foundation [poem] : Find Poems and Poets. Discover Poetry.
The creatures gamble on the whirl of life
And every adolescent body hot
Enough to sweat it out on the dance floor

Is a laboratory: maybe this lipstick, these boots,
These jeans, these earrings, maybe if I flip
My hair and vibrate my pelvis

Exactly synched to the band’s wildfire noise
That imitates history’s catastrophe
Nuke for nuke, maybe I’ll survive,

Maybe we’ll all survive. . . .
poetry  saturday  youth  teenagers  dance  inspiration  life  joy 
march 2011 by petrichor
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, W. Whitman
Lived the same life with the rest, the same old laughing, gnawing, sleeping,

83Play'd the part that still looks back on the actor or actress,
84The same old role, the role that is what we make it, as great as we like,
85Or as small as we like, or both great and small.
Walt.Whitman  poetry  Brooklyn  Ferry  NYC 
march 2011 by petrichor
moving < Killing the Buddha
I learned that a Bhakti yogi enters a room full of people and methodically moves this thing up and down—by telling stories and getting everyone to speak in unison and chant and sing—it’s like an invisible barometer he’s affecting: the quality of people’s togetherness in the room. That’s the bhav. I felt now that that was my job, to move it.

I’m also saying that a life has a bhav. A day has one. A poem is charting that. Perhaps giving the sweetest documentation of what anything is ever becoming. So a book of poems for instance over a short period of time, a year or two explains the bhav of that period and the poet approaches the explanation through form, she invents one that is most economically true to how reality occurred to her at that time.
essay  Eileen.Myles  poetry  nyc  recommended  joy  bhav  toread 
september 2010 by petrichor
Because It's Friday... - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Perhaps
a wind is freshening the grass,
and he can see now, as for the first time,
the softness of the air between the blades. The pleasure
built into a single bending leaf.
poetry  poem  atlantic  blog  Ta-Nehisi  Coates  Sweet  Ruin  hoagland  family 
october 2009 by petrichor
Auden: "The Shield of Achilles"
Out of the air a voice without a face / Proved by statistics that some cause was just / In tones as dry and level as the place: / No one was cheered and nothing was discussed; ' Column by column in a cloud of dust / They marched away enduring a belief / Whose logic brought them, somewhere else, to grief.
poetry  poem  auden  war  currentsituation 
october 2009 by petrichor
The Triumph of Life (The Walk-On of James O. Incandenza, Part I) « Infinite Tasks, Infinite Summers, & Philosophy
the wondrous story / How all things are transfigured except Love;
Amidst the failures of the ages, the breaking of backs and the lives ground to dust, the misrepresentations and abuses of emperors and philosophers, Love is the unconquerable spirit that helps to arm all heroic figures, and is a buttress against the depredations of life. This is a swell thought for those seeking an escape from the too-limiting, hyper-self-conscious narratives of postmodern fiction; Shelley’s romanticism comes without any of the putridity of sentimentalism, but nevertheless holds out a human heart which can still experience bereavement, sorrow, and a magnificent opposition to decay and death.
poetry  poem  Shelley  ij  infinitejest  infinitesummer  dfw  davidfosterwallace  InfiniteTasks 
september 2009 by petrichor
Remembering Joan Abse
Green on thy finger a grass blade curled,
so with this ring I thee wed, I thee wed,
and send our love to the loveless world
of all the living and all the dead.

Now, no more than vulnerable human,
we, more than one, less than two,
are nearly ourselves in a barley field -
and only love is the rent that's due
though the bailiffs of time return anew
to all the living but not the dead.
poem  poetry  Epithalamion  wedding  Abse 
august 2009 by petrichor
Milk by Eileen Myles
"something hot was moving / through the City / that I knew / so well."
poem  poetry  3QD  Myles  milk  nyc  newyork  city  myth  Icarus 
august 2009 by petrichor
Bookslut | The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art by Eileen Myles
I hope you all find yourself sleeping with someone you love, maybe not all of the time, but a lot of the time. The touch of a foot in the night is sincere. I hope you like your work, I hope there’s mystery and poetry in your life—not even poems, but patterns. I hope you can see them. Often these patterns will wake you up, and you will know that you are alive, again and again.
poetry  Iceland  essay  foreign  lyric  book  review  shiny 
august 2009 by petrichor
Czesław Miłosz - Wikiquote
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality.

Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself,
So the weary travelers may find repose in the lie.

* "Child of Europe" (1946), trans. Jan Darowski
poem  poland  poetry  Czeslaw  Milosz  quote  wiki 
june 2009 by petrichor
The First Marriage - Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More
in a lost language in a clearing too far from here a prophet or a prophetess intoned to the lovers who knelt with their hearts cresting like the unnamed ocean thinking This is true thinking they will never be alone again though planets slip their tracks and fish desert the sea repeating those magic sounds meaning I do on this stone below this tree before these friends yes in body and word my darkdream my sunsong yes I do I do
poetry  marriage  poem  wedding  Meinke 
june 2009 by petrichor
David Drummond | covers: Pure Product
From the poem Thingness

“the necessary tubing
that defines
the nothing blowing
thru ducts.”
poetry  bookdesign  bookcover  design  designer  gallery  graphicdesign  DavidDrummond  inspiration 
june 2009 by petrichor
Threepenny: McDonough, Accident
We saw this while
we were yelling, and then we were stuck.
poetry  boston  poem  threepenny  review  accident  McDonough 
june 2009 by petrichor
Crowning: Poetry: The New Yorker
Now that knowing means nothing,

now that you are more born

than being, more awake

than awaited
poetry  newyorker  birth  newborn  spring  joy  recommended  poem  young  mother  father  family 
april 2009 by petrichor
The City by C.P. Cavafy | 3quarksdaily
You will find no new lands, you will find no other seas.
The city will follow you. You will roam the same
streets. And you will age in the same neighborhoods;
and you will grow gray in these same houses.
Always you will arrive in this city. Do not hope for any other—
There is no ship for you, there is no road.
poetry  poem  Cavafy  3QD  city  recommended  joy  currentsituation 
april 2009 by petrichor
Op-Ed Contributor - The Passover Song - NYTimes.com
Even the dream of returning to Zion as “our mouths swell with laughter, and our tongues are overspread with songs of joy,” will take us to a country of walls and war. It is nice then to come away from the translation feeling that the Haggadah is as focused on promise as it is on rescue. As the psalm, from which the above line is taken, ends,

For those that sow with tears, with joy will reap.

Walks-on the walker crying, bearing the sack of seed;

then comes the comer, rejoicing, carrying his sheaves.
religion  poetry  passover  psalm  Haggadah  translation  language  history  future  essay  author  NathanEnglander  nytimes 
april 2009 by petrichor
National Poetry Month, the Reader's Den, and You | New York Public Library
When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,
Before high piled books, in charact'ry,
Hold like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain;
When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance . . .
poetry  poem  nypl  blog  keats  book  reading  history  language 
april 2009 by petrichor
Hum - Ann Lauterbach
The days are beautiful
The days are beautiful.

I know what days are.
nyc  newyorker  newyork  currentsituation  recommended  poetry  war  yawp  rain  poem  hum  AnnLauterbach  Lauterbach 
march 2009 by petrichor
Asphodel, That Greeny Flower [excerpt]
A thousand tropics in an apple blossom. The generous earth itself gave us lief. The whole world became my garden! But the sea which no one tends is also a garden when the sun strikes it and the waves are wakened. I have seen it and so have you when it puts all flowers to shame.
poetry  love  poem  williamcarloswilliams  asphodel 
march 2009 by petrichor
O blush not so! O blush not so - Wikisource
There’s a blush for won’t, and a blush for shan’t,
And a blush for having done it;
There’s a blush for thought, and a blush for nought,
And a blush for just begun it.
poetry  wiki  keats  poem  blush  Romantic 
march 2009 by petrichor
Ship Advancing in the Fog | clivejames.com
I stood outside the door
and listened to a cargo ship approach,
forge its way past sleeping houses
and muffled street-lights,
and I was strangely calm -
poetry  poem  CliveJames  Kassabova  ship  fog 
february 2009 by petrichor
Flaming Daredevils on Valentine’s Day - Wordplay Blog - NYTimes.com
CROSSWORDS

If only marriages were more like these,
One hundred little clues for men and wives
That lead (if we are smart) with relative ease
To the bottom right-hand corners of our lives.
Alas, when I am down you’re sometimes cross,
My little white squares run into your black.
At other times it’s me who’s at a loss
For soothing words, and you who feels their lack.
Sometimes we put down words before we think
And later find they cannot be erased.
We write them not with pencils but in ink
And in that way the grid becomes defaced.
But nonetheless, I’ll love you, my dear wife,
Till the bottom right-hand corner of my life.
nytimes  poetry  love  crossword  shortz  krozel  proposal  valentine 
february 2009 by petrichor
McNally Jackson Books | mcnallyjackson.com
Look at that bird over there. After dinner, wash the dishes. Visit foreign countries, except those whose inhabitants have expressed a desire to kill you. Don't expect your children to love you, so they can, if they want. Don't think that progress exists. It doesn't. Walk upstairs.
blog  howto  poetry  mcnallyjackson  Padgett  perfect 
february 2009 by petrichor
Praise Song for the Day | Inaugural Poem
Praise song for every hand-lettered sign,
the figuring-it-out at kitchen tables.
nytimes  typography  inspiration  history  obama  poetry  future  2009  poem  inauguration  elizabeth  alexander 
january 2009 by petrichor
TS Eliot prize 2008: ​Lit Windows by Glyn Maxwell | Books | guardian.co.uk
I don't have what I have from reading books
but stopping by your homes
to see these sights
england  foreign  newspaper  2008  poetry  Windows  light  glynmaxwell 
january 2009 by petrichor
A Display of Mackerel by Mark Doty : Poetry Foundation
Suppose we could iridesce,

like these, and lose ourselves
entirely in the universe
of shimmer—would you want

to be yourself only,
unduplicatable, doomed
to be lost? They’d prefer,

plainly, to be flashing participants,
multitudinous. Even now
they seem to be bolting

forward, heedless of stasis.
poetry  mark  fish  Doty  mackerel 
january 2009 by petrichor
Anonymous Letter: The Book Bench: Online Only: The New Yorker
The one of a kind, the singular, like my dear lover, cannot last.

And yet the collective life, which is also us, shimmers on.

Wise words, and, in that brave stroke poets have, signed.
blog  newyorker  history  health  gay  poetry  medicine  gayrights  bookbench  Doty  AIDS 
january 2009 by petrichor
My Collecting thoughts | Readerville Journal
There is no other more purely American book than this. It is a celebration, pure and simple. It doesn’t read like poetry (or at least not like most people think of poetry). It is, instead, downright joyful, almost out of control in its exuberance. Reading this book should make you happy and you should keep a copy open somewhere in the house and read a few lines every time you happen to pass by it. This is reason enough to get one of those waist-high bookstands. -Fred Ramey on Leaves of Grass
book  literature  howto  shiny  reference  history  joy  recommended  poetry  reading  fiction  library  books  yawp  Shakespeare  list  collection  classics 
january 2009 by petrichor
Human Beauty by Albert Goldbarth : Poetry Magazine
When a winter storm
from out of nowhere hit New York one night . . .

in 1892, the crew at a theater was caught
unloading props
newyork  poetry  nyc  concept  death  love  beauty  theatre  origami 
december 2008 by petrichor
Jet by Tony Hoagland
We gaze into the night as if remembering the bright unbroken planet we once came from, to which we will never be permitted to return. We are amazed how hurt we are. We would give anything for what we have.
poetry  jet  hoagland  recommended  summer  space 
december 2008 by petrichor
Beauty of Soul: Oscar Wilde & Anton Chekhov by Stephen Fry
A paradox is that it seems harder to penetrate one’s own mind, participate in one’s own experience and discover one’s own feelings than those of another. You might find it easier genuinely to imagine what it is to be a Guatemalan coffee grower or a Siberian oil-pipe welder, really to see the world as they see it, smell it, understand it and experience it, than to imagine what is like to be yourself, the reader of this sentence, the owner of your own eyes and personality. But that’s a whole nother question and you haven’t bustled out of the cold real world and into the warm glow of my cosy cyber cabin just to be regaled by improbable verbal surds and untenable ontological curlicues. And if you have, you’re silly and must stop it right now please.
stephen  fry  stephenfry  blog  essay  literature  oscar  wilde  chekhov  poetry  imagination  fantasy  fairytale  stories  fiction  yawp  joy  england  russia  history 
december 2008 by petrichor
Be Drunk - Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More
And if sometimes, on the steps of a palace or the green grass of a ditch, in the mournful solitude of your room, you wake again, drunkenness already diminishing or gone, ask the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock, everything that is flying, everything that is groaning, everything that is rolling, everything that is singing, everything that is speaking. . .ask what time it is and wind, wave, star, bird, clock will answer you: "It is time to be drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of time, be drunk, be continually drunk! On wine, on poetry or on virtue as you wish."
poetry  baudelaire  drunk 
november 2008 by petrichor
In Memory of W. B. Yeats - Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More
With the farming of a verse Make a vineyard of the curse, Sing of human unsuccess In a rapture of distress; In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise.
poetry  yeats  auden  memory 
november 2008 by petrichor
Op-Ed Contributor - Election Day Poem - Election Day - NYTimes.com
She won’t know anything but threats and trends
Until, again in the dark, but midnight’s now,
She can sense what hope the numbers will allow,
And what you get when you smear or overspend.

She will sit and stare at charts on CNN.
(But aren’t we redeemed by what they cannot show?
The struggle in each restless heart to know
The terms on which the nation’s fate depends.)
McClatchy  poem  election  day  nytimes  2008  vote  obama  recommended  yawp  joy  chipkidd  poetry 
november 2008 by petrichor
The Country Clergy by R. S. Thomas
They left no books,
Memorial to their lonely thought
In grey parishes: rather they wrote
On men's hearts and in the minds
Of young children sublime words
Too soon forgotten.
tls  poetry  foreign  england  wales  history  2008  1958  newspaper 
september 2008 by petrichor
Her Own Society: Books: The New Yorker
“Mr. Higginson,” she began, with no endearment. “Are you too deeply occupied to say if my Verse is alive?”
poetry  dickinson  emily  new  newyorker  history  essay  america  book 
july 2008 by petrichor
Chiasmus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
But O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who dotes, yet doubts; suspects, yet strongly loves.
chiasmus  wiki  language  poetry  wikipedia 
june 2008 by petrichor
The New Poetry Handbook - Poem by Mark Strand
11 If a man gives up poetry for power, he shall have lots of power.
poetry  mark  strand  new  handbook 
may 2008 by petrichor
Poem - by Robin Robertson for Granta 101
Look closely at these snapshots, all this Kodacolor going to blue, and you’ll start to notice. When you finally see me, you’ll see me everywhere
poetry  joy  photography  granta  2008 
april 2008 by petrichor
Agents & Editors: A Q&A With Editor Pat Strachan
The second teacher was a high school English teacher, Miss Andrews, who was a fanatic about literature and especially Moby-Dick. There was a harpoon over her desk.
books  interview  publishing  editor  strachan  poetry  newyork  nyc  newyorker  bookcover  bookdesign  design  illustration 
april 2008 by petrichor
Fast Company: Books: The New Yorker
Ashbery recalls Kenneth Koch’s wondering, before either of them met him, “I wonder what it would be like to know O’Hara.”
frank  o'hara  newyorker  reading  essay  poetry  book 
april 2008 by petrichor
Vroman's Bookstore: Second Poem of the Day
Give me back my father walking the halls of Wertheimer Box and Paper Company
poetry  blog  recommended  joy  tehwin 
april 2008 by petrichor
John Donne - Wikiquote
And find
What wind
Serves to advance an honest mind.
poetry  wiki  donne  john 
april 2008 by petrichor
Old School Odes: One Of The Devil's Own Nights
It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city only for the very young. — Joan Didion
NewYorker  nyc  inspiration  blog  poetry  gawker 
march 2008 by petrichor
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