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

Feb 17, 2014

James Wright: Dog, Horse, Gopher, Blessing

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Here is an excerpt from Peter Stitt's 1972  Paris Review interview with esteemed poet James Wright (1927-1980), whose eloquence h...
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Feb 5, 2014

Jane Kenyon's "Happiness"

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Prodigal There is much to love about Jane Kenyon’s poem, “Happiness,” Happiness by Jane Kenyon : Poetry Magazine especially if we v...
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Jan 28, 2014

Mary Ruefle, "Why I Am Not a Good Kisser," a Comedy-Gravity Meatball

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http://www.versedaily.org/2011/goodkisser.shtml “Why I Am Not a Good Kisser” is a Mary Ruefle romp in which we see her ample, quirky...
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Jan 22, 2014

Mary Ruefle, Kurt Vonnegut and the Problem of Anti-War Literature

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Cat with No Tail It’s supremely difficult to raise an anti-war poem above the level of shouted, trite protest. Vonnegut suc...
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Jan 12, 2014

Two Snow Scenes: Maureen Seaton and Naomi Shihab Nye

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Here are two poems sharing the title “Snow,” the first by Maureen Seaton  (1991) Snow by Maureen Seaton : The Poetry Foundati...
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Jan 6, 2014

Wallace Stevens' "The Snow Man" Again

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http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15745 It's hard not to talk about snow in our foot of the stuff and our single-digit temp...
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Jan 4, 2014

An African Greeting and A Small Emily Dickinson Gem

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Wood Storks, Northern Florida Somewhere, years ago, I heard of a greeting that was common somewhere in Africa. Instead of settling fo...
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