’A poem is meant to be read and read again and again, to be run through the mind until it is part of the mind, until the mind recites it as it recites itself.’ C.K.Williams. I’ve started learning poems off by heart. I had to do it a long time ago for exams, and I’ve … Continue reading ‘until the mind recites it as it recites itself’
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Reading Yeats on the El
This is the beginning and end of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Poem 12, from the section ‘Pictures of the Gone World’ in ‘A Coney Island of the Mind’ (1958), with its distinctive font, looking like it was designed on a typewriter. A poem has no obligation to be true, only convincing, but I’d be disappointed to find … Continue reading Reading Yeats on the El

