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W. H. Auden’s “September 1, 1939”
Here it is again: September 1, 1939, eighty-four years later. Can you picture Auden at The Dizzy Club, that "dive" on Fifty-Second Street, (aka Swing Street) on that terrible day when the Germans invaded Poland…
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Byron Rushes to Astrology’s Defense
Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!If in your bright leaves we would read the fateOf men and empires 'tis to be forgivenThat in our aspirations to be great,Our destinies o'erleap their mortal…
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Byron Rushes to Astrology’s Defense
Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!If in your bright leaves we would read the fateOf men and empires 'tis to be forgivenThat in our aspirations to be great,Our destinies o'erleap their mortal…
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Don’t Kill Yourself [by Carlos Drummond de Andrade; selected by Stacey Lehman]
I was looking through my copy of Elizabeth Bishop's The Complete Poems: 1927-1979 for the publication date of "One Art" so I could respond to Dean Rader's challenge when I found Bishop's translation of this moving poem. —…
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Don’t Kill Yourself [by Carlos Drummond de Andrade; selected by Stacey Lehman]
I was looking through my copy of Elizabeth Bishop's The Complete Poems: 1927-1979 for the publication date of "One Art" so I could respond to Dean Rader's challenge when I found Bishop's translation of this moving poem. —…
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Demons and Imps [by Mitch Sisskind]
How many demons and imps are in the world? Ha ha! I laugh when I'm asked that question; Demons and imps are numberless and timeless. Angels flit in and out of existence like quarks…
