Banjo52

Conversation. Especially literature and language, education, football and baseball, movies, history, then and now, birds, two-lane roads. "Banjo" is a fun word, and the instrument can make fine music. But this isn't really a blog about banjos, except in the metaphorical sense of interesting sounds riding across a valley from one porch to another. Click on any photo to enlarge. Students, remember to footnote. All text and photos: © 2009-2014 Banjo52

Mar 30, 2010

Kim Addonizio, Wallace Stevens, Ukulele Boy

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Where does the eye go? The eye likes red, or at least is its slave. How much choice do we have? We obey our rods and cones. So I see a stron...
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Mar 26, 2010

Thomas Lux, "I Love You Sweatheart"

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I Love You Sweatheart by Thomas Lux | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor I don't mean to be pushy about Thomas Lux, but I...
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Mar 25, 2010

Yeats, Lux, Ciardi, Toomer: Can We Pull It All Together?

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A Little Tooth - Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More For Instance by John Ciardi : Poetry Magazine [poem/magazine] : Find Poems and P...
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Mar 24, 2010

Jean Toomer, "Reapers"

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Here's another view of the pastoral, or at least the agrarian. Who has it right, Hopkins or Toomer? Toomer's clause, "as a thi...
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Mar 23, 2010

Lux and Yeats on Daughters

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A Little Tooth - Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More RPO -- William Butler Yeats : A Prayer for my Daughter Okay, okay, so I already ...
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Mar 22, 2010

HAPPY HOPKINS, 2: "THE WINDHOVER"

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The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins : The Poetry Foundation [poem] : Find Poems and Poets. Discover Poetry. “The Windhover” might be Hopk...
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Mar 21, 2010

HAPPY HOPKINS: "PIED BEAUTY"

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Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins : The Poetry Foundation [poem] : Find Poems and Poets. Discover Poetry. After “Carrion Comfort” on Marc...
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