"Italian plums, the dears"
Hughes, Dawes, Dickinson, Cowen, Glück, Parker
Langston Hughes:
Kwame Dawes:
Emily Dickinson:
Purple is fashionable / twice- / This season of the year, / And when a soul / perceives itself / To be an Emperor.
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Elise Cowen:
Louise Glück:
William Parker, “Purple,” rec. 1998:
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I looked up "yen shee" and got "the residue formed in the bowl of an opium pipe by smoking." Not really helpful. I don't understand the "Marianne Moores" either, but I like it. Love the Gluck poem.
I enjoy the musical qualities in these poems.