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Hello all,
I have a request: poems about solitude and/or poets for whom solitude is a running theme. Ones I have so far are Rainer Maria Rilke, Gary Snyder, Emily Dickinson, Louise Bogan, and Kazim Ali. Thank you so much!
Anyway, here is an unrelated poem by John Berryman.
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"Dream Song 187" by John Berryman
Them lady poets must not marry, pal.
Miss Dickinson--fancy in Amherst bedding hér.
Fancy a lark with Sappho,
a tumble in the bushes with Miss Moore,
a spoon with Emily, while Charlotte glare.
Miss Bishop's too noble-O.
That was the lot. And two of them are here
as yet, and--and: Sylvia Plath is not.
She--she her credentials
has handed in, leaving alone two tots
and widower to what he makes of it--
surviving guy, &
when Tolstoy's pathetic widow doing her whung
(after them decades of marriage) & kids, she decided he was queer
& loving his agent.
Wherefore he rush off, leaving two journals, & die.
It is a true error to marry with poets
or to be by them.
I have a request: poems about solitude and/or poets for whom solitude is a running theme. Ones I have so far are Rainer Maria Rilke, Gary Snyder, Emily Dickinson, Louise Bogan, and Kazim Ali. Thank you so much!
Anyway, here is an unrelated poem by John Berryman.
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"Dream Song 187" by John Berryman
Them lady poets must not marry, pal.
Miss Dickinson--fancy in Amherst bedding hér.
Fancy a lark with Sappho,
a tumble in the bushes with Miss Moore,
a spoon with Emily, while Charlotte glare.
Miss Bishop's too noble-O.
That was the lot. And two of them are here
as yet, and--and: Sylvia Plath is not.
She--she her credentials
has handed in, leaving alone two tots
and widower to what he makes of it--
surviving guy, &
when Tolstoy's pathetic widow doing her whung
(after them decades of marriage) & kids, she decided he was queer
& loving his agent.
Wherefore he rush off, leaving two journals, & die.
It is a true error to marry with poets
or to be by them.