Constantly Risking Absurdity
Aug 18What a great title this is!!! What a definition of our lives. I say this because my week is absurd right now. It started last week when Jason came cruising into the apartment in the middle of the day. I was sure that either someone had died or he had been laid off. It’s been 5 years since he has darkened our door home sick from work. He doesn’t get sick. I get sick. I...
Song by Allen Ginsberg
May 27This made me smile today. For whatever reason, it just really summed up a lot of things for me. It’s been a tough couple of weeks. Work has been crazy, my friends are feeling pressure, I had food poisoning and I really feel just out of sync for some reason. It’s just those times that poetry does me the most good. It sweeps in and and lets me know that I’m not the only...
Daddy’s Girl
Dec 20Over the Thanksgiving holiday I went “home”. I put this in quotations, since like many of you out there, my parents are divorced and this sense of “home” has never been exactly the same. You see, I grew up in Florida and my family lives in Kentucky, which for those of you who haven’t been there is effectively another planet. It’s beautiful but definitely...
Yusef Komunyakaa
Dec 06A native of Bogalusa Louisiana, Yusef Komunyakaa won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1994 for his collection entitled Neon Vernacular. You can take a look at a preview of Neon Vernacular by clicking here. His poetry is like written literary jazz with a razor’s edge. I guess for some reason I feel closer to him through the bricks his father laboured over and his southern stylings. You...
Who’s Wislawa Szymborska?
Sep 15If you don’t know this author, you should. My friend Laura introduced me to her a few years ago and to be honest, I had never even heard the name before. I had no idea what I was missing. Evidently, she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996 and I can clearly see why. The most interesting thing about her poetry is that it was originally published in a Slavic language and still...