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

May 28, 2014

Spring and Dylan Thomas' "The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower"

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I'm pretty sure I was a college freshman when I first encountered Dylan Thomas' "The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives ...
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May 26, 2014

The Great Speckled Bird . . . Is a Robin?

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I'd like to think this is the bird in the gospel song: What a beautiful thought I am thinking Concerning a great speckled bird. It c...
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May 8, 2014

Poking and Prodding: e.e. cummings’ “O sweet spontaneous” and the Nature of Nature (and; un-Schooling

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At Kensington Metropark the other day, I discovered an island hubbub, a rookery full of Great Egrets, Great Blue Herons, and Co...
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Apr 25, 2014

FROST'S DIMINISHED OVENBIRD: THE SMALL AND BROWN, THE FALLING

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Golden-Crowned Kinglet, I think http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173533 http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ovenbird/id ...
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Apr 10, 2014

Snakes, Stealth, Beauty: Emily Dickinson, D.H. Lawrence, A.E. Stallings

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In my April 5, 2014 post about Jamaal May's "Hum for the Bolt," we were feeling lightning’s sneaky approach, it...
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Apr 5, 2014

Jamaal May, "Hum for the Bolt": Lightning Reconsidered

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Hum for the Bolt by Jamaal May : Poetry Magazine Blurred Edges “Hum for the Bolt” is the title poem of a first book by the up a...
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Mar 24, 2014

More Motel Charm, plus Mary Szybist's "Night Shifts at the Group Home"

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Blue Traveler In case you came for a poem, a discussion of Mary Szybist’s “Night Shifts in the Group Home” follows two brief travel no...
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Michigan, Ohio River Valley, United States
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