David Anthony Sam's Blog, page 173
September 5, 2017
Farewell John Ashbery
He was profoundly influential and profoundly challenging. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poet...
September 4, 2017
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. ― Carl Sandburg
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. ― Carl Sandburg
September 1, 2017
Issue #7 of Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine contains 2 of my poems
Issue #7 of Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine contains 2 of my poems
Glass has published my poem “Anticipating Blindness”
Glass has published my poem “Anticipating Blindness“
Two Cities has published my poem “September” in its new issue #15
Two Cities has published my poem “September” in its new issue #15
August 31, 2017
My poem “Grammar Lesson” is online at Allegro Poetry Magazine.
My poem “Grammar Lesson” is online at Allegro Poetry Magazine.
August 29, 2017
A Disappointing Collection by a Good Writer
Winter’s Journey by Stephen Dobyns
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
If poetry is the careful distillation of language to an essence,, then these stream-of-consciousness prosy essays are not really poetry. There is no doubt Stephen Dobyn’s can write—given his past poetry collections and the concluding poem in Winter’s Journey. But I cannot recommend this collection, given that it feels lax and self indulgent. There are moments: phrases and sentences that ring true or have fine wit about them. Let’s just let it go at this: Disappointing.
Eliot’s “Sophomore Slump”
Poems by T. S. Eliot by T.S. Eliot
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Eliot’s second collection shows a “sophomore slump.” Weaker than Prufrock, most of these poems strain to display erudition.
This collection stands the test of time 100 years later
Prufrock and Other Observations by T.S. Eliot
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This collection stands the test of time 100 years later
One hundred years after they appeared, these poems still resonate both in their diction and stance of social criticism. I return again and again to reread Eliot
