I just bought Essential Pleasures, the new poetry anthology edited by Robert Pinsky, creator of the Favorite Poem Project, for the library. I think Robert Pinsky heads up brilliant poetry projects. The poems he selects are notably accessible and he includes a nice range of time periods and styles. Or maybe he just includes a significant number of my favorites. The new anthology encourages listening to poetry read aloud (http://poemsoutloud.net is promoted in the book) and includes a CD of selected poems.
This is the end of Amy Lowell's poem "The Letter." I discovered it in Essential Pleasures.
I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against
The want of you;
Of squeezing it into little inkdrops,
And posting it.
And I scald alone, here, under the fire
Of the great moon.
Holy cow! Have you ever heard anything as descriptive as chafing my heart against the want of you? I can't get over it. It's too good.
4 comments:
Wow! Seriously good stuff. Thanks for sharing!
I love the poem. I had to look up the whole thing and it's fantastic.
Love It!
Isn't it beautiful? The entire poem is here, and as Heidi noted, the whole thing is fantastic.
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