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Schlagwort: American Life in Poetry
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BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE In our busy times, the briefest pause to express a little interest in the natural world is praiseworthy. Most of us spend our time thinking about other people, and scarcely any time thinking about other creatures. I recently… Continue Reading „29. American Life in Poetry: Column 285“
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BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE I’d guess there are lots of people, like me, who sometimes visit places which in memory are hallowed but which, through time, have been changed irreparably. It is a painful experience but it underlines life. Here Carl Little,… Continue Reading „146. American Life in Poetry: Column 284“
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BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE I’ve read dozens of poems written about the events of September 11, 2001, but this one by Tony Gloeggler of New York City is the only one I’ve seen that addresses the good fortune of a survivor. Five… Continue Reading „114. American Life in Poetry: Column 283“
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BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Because I’m a senior citizen I’m easily attracted by poems about my brothers and sisters meandering into their golden years. Here’s a poem by Edward Hirsch, who lives in New York, that offers our younger readers a look… Continue Reading „90. American Life in Poetry: Column 282“
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BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Anton Chekhov, the master of the short story, was able to see whole worlds within the interactions of simple Russian peasants, and in this little poem by Leo Dangel, who grew up in rural South Dakota, something similar… Continue Reading „53. American Life in Poetry: Column 281“
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BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Rhyming has a way of brightening a poem, and a depressing subject can become quite a bit lighter with well-chosen rhymes. Here’s a sonnet by Mary Meriam, who lives in Missouri. Are there readers among you who have… Continue Reading „110. American Life in Poetry: Column 279“
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BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Peter Everwine is a California poet whose work I have admired for almost as long as I have been writing. Here he beautifully captures a quiet moment of reflection. Rain Toward evening, as the light failed and the… Continue Reading „78. American Life in Poetry: Column 278“
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BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Here’s hoping that very few of our readers have to go through cardiac rehab, which Thomas Reiter of New Jersey captures in this poem, but if they do, here’s hoping that they come through it feeling wildly alive… Continue Reading „52. American Life in Poetry: Column 277“
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BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE I live in Nebraska, where we have a town named Homer. Such a humble, homely name and, as it happens, the poet Donal Heffernan is from Homer, and here’s his hymn to the town and its history. Long… Continue Reading „35. American Life in Poetry: Column 276“
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BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE I recognize the couple who are introduced in this poem by Patricia Frolander, of Sundance, Wyoming, and perhaps you’ll recognize them, too. Denial He called it “his ranch,” yet each winter day found her beside him feeding hay… Continue Reading „143. American Life in Poetry: Column 275“
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BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Alicia Suskin Ostriker is one of our country’s finest poets. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey. I thought that today you might like to have us offer you a poem full of blessings. The Blessing of the Old… Continue Reading „112. American Life in Poetry: Column 274“
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BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Equipment. I like to paint and draw, and I own enough art supplies to start my own store. And for every hobby there are lots of supplies that seem essential. In this poem we get a whole tackle… Continue Reading „84. American Life in Poetry: Column 273“
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BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Whether we like it or not, we live with the awareness that death is always close at hand, and in this poem by Don Thompson, a Californian, a dead blackbird can’t be pushed out of the awareness of… Continue Reading „36. American Life in Poetry: Column 272“
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BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE Barnyard chickens, which are little more than reptiles with feathers, can be counted on to kill those among them who are malformed or diseased, but we humans, advanced animals that we think we are, are far more likely… Continue Reading „153. American Life in Poetry: Column 271“
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BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE We are sometimes amazed by how well the visually impaired navigate the world, but like the rest of us, they have found a way to do what interests them. Here Jan Mordenski of Michigan describes her mother, absorbed… Continue Reading „112. American Life in Poetry: Column 270“
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