Tuesday, November 28, 2006

News at Eleven: The eight poems from Elizabeth Bishop,

for example, start with two of the “Songs for a Colored Singer”, which turn up the volume of what follows; and Emily Dickinson takes on a blues rhythm, the dashes of her punctuation becoming a kind of hunh:

The Rose did caper on her cheek--
Her Boddice rose and fell--
Her pretty speech--like drunken men--
Did stagger pitiful--

from The Times Literary Supplement: Fenton on love

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