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Lorine Niedecker, “Transition”

Posted on January 17, 2021 by ashok / 0 Comment

Why do we create? This is America. Many believe that if you don’t produce, you don’t deserve to exist. This absurdity drives people to publish on th...

poetry

Louise Bogan, “Knowledge”

Posted on January 13, 2021 by ashok / 0 Comment

Bogan opens with knowledge from pain. Now she knows “that passion warms little of flesh.” She did not know this before. A relationship gone wrong wa...

poetry

Kay Ryan, “New Rooms”

Posted on December 26, 2020 by ashok / 0 Comment

What I would like to learn as I write more: how to be a better student. If, confronted with words of an almost alien language, how would I find what’s rel...

dickinson/poetry

Emily Dickinson, “The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman” (1487); Twila Newey, “In the Plum”

Posted on December 20, 2020 by ashok / 0 Comment

Often I think about doing. It is a form of procrastination but potentially more. When Dickinson wonders about a man who trekked “so far so cold… / F...

poetry

Robert Creeley, “The Rhyme;” Georgia O’Keefe, “Red and Orange Streak / Streak;” Ted Kooser, “Sitting All Evening Alone in the Kitchen”

Posted on December 17, 2020 by ashok / 0 Comment

“Loneliness makes you part of the largest group of people in the world,” I used to tell myself. It never worked. I felt miserable no matter how many...

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Student of Political Philosophy. Writes too much, badly needs an editor. Everything on this blog will eventually be revised or eliminated. The hope of this blog is to present you varied, thoughtful works, ones not typically engaged online. Contact me.

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