Tag Archives: Jan Zwicky

Three Poetic Riffs on Courage – Part Three – Jan Zwicky

November 21, 2017 – 10:16 pm

  COURAGE And now you know that it won’t turn out as it should that what you did was not enough, that ignorance, old evil, is enforced and willed, and loved, that it is used to manufacture madness, that it is the aphrodisiac of power the crutch of lassitude, you an ordinary heart, just functional, […]

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Three Poetic Riffs on Courage – Part Two – Jack Gilbert

November 21, 2017 – 6:34 pm

The Abnormal Is Not Courage The Poles rode out from Warsaw against the German tanks on horses. Rode knowing, in sunlight, with sabers. A magnitude of beauty that allows me no peace. And yet this poem would lessen that day. Question the bravery. Say it’s not courage. Call it passion. Would say courage isn’t that. […]

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Three Poetic Riffs on Courage – Part One – Jane Mead

November 21, 2017 – 3:53 pm

World of Made and Unmade from Section III * * * How will you spend your courage, her life asks my life No courage spent of bloodshot/gunshot/taproot/eye. How will you spend your courage, how will you spend your life. Bloodshot, gunshot, taproot, eye— and the mind on its slow push through the world— * * […]

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The Bigness of Small Poems – # 22 in a Series – Cohen and Zwicky

November 26, 2016 – 6:46 pm

SUMMER HAIKU for Frank and Marion Scott Silence and a deeper silence when the crickets hesitate Leonard Cohen from Leonard Cohen: Selected Poems 1956-1968, McClelland & Stewart, 1968 I am home now from my two weeks away in the U.S. and Calgary reading from my new book and leading retreats and workshops. I am so […]

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