Twelfth Post!

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Poetry

[(Anonymous)]

Share and discuss poems with meme!

Re: Poetry

[(Anonymous)]

Bought this Wendy Cope poetry collection on a whim:

https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571389513-the-orange-and-other-poems/

It's very short for the price, and it's a mixed bag, but the good poems are very good, so NO RAGRETS. :) I especially liked her darker ones. May link some in a bit.

Re: Poetry

[(Anonymous)]

https://booksaroundthetable.wordpress.com/2019/10/18/poems-that-are-part-of-me/

Linking for the illustrated copy of Disobedience! :D

Re: Poetry

[(Anonymous)]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7qrs4tV60c

The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.
It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.
It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow.
I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.

Enjoying Christopher Tin's arrangement of Gitanjali 69, by Rabindranath Tagore. It's been a really long week.

Re: Poetry

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https://secretfanspace.dreamwidth.org/2807.html?thread=3667703#cmt3667703

Chinese poetry dan (from 2023!) here. Had a chat with my mother recently about my little poetry adventure, since I was curious - these poets are pretty well-known now, but my mother was a contemporary and might have a different perspective. Most of them she's familiar with, although often not for their poetry - she knew Lin Huiyin for her architecture work, for example, and she knew a couple of the others as essayists. Seems like poetry was not a big part of the college curriculum back in the 70s.

It turns out my mother was a big fan of Shu Ting, back in the day. :') She even wrote her fanmail because she loved her poetry and wanted to translate it into English. Don't know if she ever got a response, but wow. Small world, apparently.