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

Jun 28, 2014

Phillip Levine, "Coming Close": Labor and Place

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Here is former Poet Laureate, and native Detroiter, Phillip Levine with a portrait of women who labor. Really labor.   Would you ag...
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Jun 16, 2014

Hannah Gamble's "Growing a Bear": Entertainment and Art

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First a note on the photos: which of these women might be the poem's speaker? Now, on to the work itself. http://www.poetryf...
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Jun 6, 2014

D.H. Lawrence's "Bavarian Gentians" and Dylan Thomas, Follow-up

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Here is D.H. Lawrence’s poem, “Bavarian Gentians.” I think I know why it came to mind as I talked last time about Dylan Thomas a...
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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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