#793 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Friday November 10)
Good morning,
GREAT POETRY
Brad Tabach-Bank has a number of suggestions about great poets that were not on Bruce Powell’s or my lists from a few weeks ago:
“Please add Wallace Stevens to your list of poets. By day he was an executive for Hartford Insurance and by night one of the most important modernist poets of the 20th century. And while we’re on the subject of antisemitic poets, don’t forget Ezra Pound who, as a fascist living in Italy during WW2, blamed Jewish bankers for the ills of the world. Then there’s William Carlos Williams, John Donne and Theodore Roethke (the hits keep coming).”
Then he added moments later another email with this:
“And for god’s sake what about Ogden Nash:
‘Candy is dandy,
But liquor is quicker.’”
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
I’m pretty sure I shared The Red Wheelbarrow a while back. Here it is again, in all its simplicity:
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens
And then there is This is Just to Say:
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
MUSIC
For those who haven’t seen the music video of the “last” Beatles song release, “Now and Then,” this was put together with old tapes and modern additions. It’s amazing:
Have a great weekend,
Glenn