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.
...jesus. Easy to forget (read: "easy for this writer to have prejudices regarding writers who publish both poetry and novels") what a monster prosodist Piercy is. "Rich fresh wine", three stressed monosyllables at the end of a line--yeah, you see it all the time, but it really hit me here, at least today. Monster pome-writing. Thanks Sean..
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.
...jesus. Easy to forget (read: "easy for this writer to have prejudices regarding writers who publish both poetry and novels") what a monster prosodist Piercy is. "Rich fresh wine", three stressed monosyllables at the end of a line--yeah, you see it all the time, but it really hit me here, at least today. Monster pome-writing. Thanks Sean..
thanks for this comment-it made me find "Barbie Doll" by Marge Piercy. So she wrote novels, too?