Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Poems as speaking objects (1)

Inscriptions on Greek objects, such as sculptural pediments, grave markers, urns.

Ancient Greek household statues. Modern household statues.

The answer to an Anglo-Saxon riddle.

John Donne's name in a window.

Rilke's headless Apollo, in German and in Stephen Mitchell's English.

Looking at a giant toad.

Looking at Merrill's mirror. Sandra Beasley on persona poems. On sand.

George Herriman's Krazy Kat. Monica Youn's Ignatz, in a couple of poems.

The Hudson River ice trade. More ice.

Ground cherries. A toy. A water strider and a neat magazine.