Below is a link to a reading of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “Binsey Poplars” by poet Maurice Manning. This reading is taken from a 2007 Interchange program on WFHB Community Radio in Bloomington, Indiana. Manning was…
Date Archives June 2014
fructus separati
Walking in the late evening with the sun still high we formed a kind of huckleberry party, you and I. Our choice of route dictated by access to berries. Rasberries planted on borders up against…
An Aesthetic of Possession
Walking past a green vine with a white flower growing up a street sign I reached out and touched the flower. I felt a very brief impulse to pluck it off the stem – laminectomy(VIP:…
Part I–This American Life On Animal Sacrifice
I am a casual listener of This American Life. When our family of four drives to and fro to relatives’ homes we will listen to it along with Radiolab. These are “family friendly” podcasts normally…
Our Surround: A Final Word
A final word here. Power proceeds to find force unnecessary and counterproductive. This turns out to be the end of that great experiment called America; the democratic ideal its philosophy; industrial consumption its means. Power…
Choral Rings: Stevens’ “Circled Sea”?
Stevens ends his Collected Poems with “Not Ideas About the Thing but the Thing Itself.” At the earliest ending of winter, In March, a scrawny cry from outside Seemed like a sound in his mind….
Circle and Sway: Reading Williams’ “Flowers by the Sea”
At times the spirit moves one to attempt an explication of a poem, particularly a small one, and a famous one, because one can both grasp the whole and also be somewhat certain of the…