"eating lunch and dreaming"
Berry, Niedecker, Piercy, Clifton, Stern
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Wendell Berry:
The trouble / is: this stirs / a real mean - / ing / Humanity / is engaged— / on equal burial.
Marge Piercy:
Gerald Stern:
Lester Young, “June Bug,” rec. June 28, 1949:
The title 'eating lunch and dreaming' perfectly captures the mood here. Listening to Lester Young’s 'June Bug' while reading through these selections gives the entire anthology a beautiful, relaxed summer rhythm. Thank you for this curation!
Louise Clifton's tight poem took me aback, forcing me to ponder all the meaning packed therein. Gerald Stern took me on a walk through town and into the hopes and realities of that one steel worker. Then I had to go back and reread Marge Piercy so that I could fall in love again with sensual June.