This poem was composed during the Greek Civil War while Seferis took a sabbatical on the Greek island of Poros. It contains the seeds for a book of poems entitled "Thrush" which the poet wrote a few months later. Each numbered stanza is a composition unto itself, a musical note or tone containing its own color, images, sounds, and meaning. This is the first time this poem has been translated into English.
Jennifer R. Kellogg on "'Musical Notes' for a Poem" |
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"A High School Spoken-Word Club Changed Students' Lives. Now, You Can Read Their Poems"
"Inspired by the club's potential to engage students, Kahn created an after-school spoken word club at the high school. And for over 20 years, the club has created space for students to engage in storytelling. Many have gone on to become award-winning poets, scholars, or even National Youth Poet Laureates. Now a new anthology called Respect the Mic is showcasing a portion of that talent."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Keene Carter on Susan Stewart's Cinder
"'Bees' is a wonderfully successful poem, as is the book Columbarium and indeed all of Cinder. I've pried into it a little because of its success, which is, as I've tried to show, tied directly to its 'failure'—a 'failure' in quotation marks because it is the failure to represent everything, and that's like calling death a failure of life: the requirement is absurd, even if the sentence is true." |
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