Lesley Jenike's Blog, page 10

New year! New digs! (And yes, Don Bogen watches over me l...

New year! New digs! (And yes, Don Bogen watches over me like some kind of latter-day poet saint.)

I can't get enough of this piece of music. I start every ...

I can't get enough of this piece of music. I start every morning with it. And this poem (because I like the tritina so much more than the sestina):
Roundstone Cove
The wind rises. The sea snarls in the fogfar from the attentive beaches of childhood--no picnic, no striped chairs, no sand, no sun.
Here even by day cliffs obstruct the sun; moonlight miles out mocks this abyss of fog.I walk big-bellied, lost in motherhood,
hunched in a shell of coat, a blindered hood. Alone a long time, I remember s...

One more for today because this freaks me out:

One more for today because this freaks me out:

Indulge me today, ok?

Indulge me today, ok?

Um. I'm kind of feeling this today:

Um. I'm kind of feeling this today:

I very much like this David Yezzi poem from his book Azor...

I very much like this David Yezzi poem from his book Azores (Swallow Press, 2008).
Very Like a Whale

Having seen the rainstorm letting up, I step outside and light a cigarette--a guilty pleasure I allow myselffor now, till guilt (or, horribly, my health)
disallows it as still pleasurable.A span of windswept grey foregrounds some clouds,looming presences of various widths.I play the children's game Prince Hamlet played
and name the shapes parading through the air.One--it takes me by surprise, in...

I like this redheaded soprano:

I like this redheaded soprano:

I start back on the 31st, so I'm trying desperately to re...

I start back on the 31st, so I'm trying desperately to revise a batch of poems for Sept. 1st's big mail out. Plus syllabi. Plus lots of reading.
I'm thinking about a few things and one of them is Polly Harvey's album called White Chalk. Do you know it? You should. And, if you know anything about her, you'll know that it's quite different. First and foremost, it was written and recorded on the piano, and the piano is decidedly NOT Harvey's instrument. And because it's not, she was limited by i...

HOORAY!!!!!

HOORAY!!!!!

Dear Friends, drop what you're doing and go watch I Am Lo...

Dear Friends, drop what you're doing and go watch I Am Love. Or if you can't drop what you're doing because a: you're too enthralled or b: the film isn't playing in your local theatre, then by all means rent it as soon as it hits Netflix. In fact, buy it and watch it over and over. Seeing such beauty renews one's faith. Truly. Vedendo questo film vi trasformerà.