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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON BRODSKY'S COLLECTED, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Signature in a paperback / arresting your copious Subject(s): Brodsky, Joseph (1940-1996) | |||
"With all tenderness and affection" —from J. Brodsky to M. Harper; inscribed in Less than One: Selected Essays, October 12, 1988 Signature in a paperback arresting your copious annotations on "September 1, 1939" (exegetical in the extreme) extreme unction of the heart such lucid heartwork without translation bright bed and breakfast in macabre Providence very unPoelike for I have read your EnglishAmerican (as you read your RussianSoviet) to a vast audience of scientists in the graduated labs of Barus & Holly a valiant pant across participles the psychic hum of all lingua you intuited "for language is the only homeland" metaphysician of this psychograph an interrogation sutures of blood and song your generous taxonomies in cavernous secret vena cava First Published in The Kenyon Review, Volume 23 #2 (Spring 2001). www.kenyonreview.org/roth | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...NEW YEAR'S DAWN - BROADWAY by SARA TEASDALE THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 23 by THOMAS CAMPION THE WIND SUFFERS by LAURA RIDING DEATH AND CUPID; AN ALLEGORY by JOHN GODFREY SAXE A CHARACTER OF JOSEPH PRIESTLY by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD FIGHT! (HARVARD-DARTMOUTH FOOTBALL GAME, 1908) by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE THIRD REUNION POEM by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 22 by WILLIAM BOSWORTH |
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