[New-Poetry] Whittier recovered and recorded

[cvoisine at nmsu.edu]

Kenneth Koch on Whittier (and others...)

You Were Wearing

You were wearing your Edgar Allan Poe printed cotton blouse.
In each divided up square of the blouse was a picture of Edgar 
Allan Poe.
You hair was blonde and you were cute. You asked me, “Do 
most boys think that most girls are bad?”
I smelled the mould of your seaside resort hotel bedroom on
	your hair held in place by a John Greenleaf Whittier clip.
“No,” I said, “it’s girls who think boys are bad.” Then we read
	Snowbound together
and ran around in an attic, so that a little of the blue enamel
	was scraped off my George Washington, Father of our 
	Country, shoes.

Mother was walking in the living room, her Strauss Waltzes 
	comb in her hair.
We waited for a time and then joined her, only to be served
	tea in cups painted with pictures of Herman Melville.
As well as with illustrations from his book Moby Dick and 
	from his novella, Benito Cereno.
Father came in wearing his Dick Tracy necktie: “How about a
	drink, everyone?”
I said, “Let’s go outside a while.” Then we went onto the porch
	and sat on the Abraham Lincoln swing.
You sat on the eyes, mouth, and beard part, and I sat on the knees.
In the yard across the street we saw a snowman holding a
	garbage can lid smashed into a likeness of the mad English
	king, George the Third.



Quoting JforJames at aol.com:

> _http://www.newburyportnews.com/pulife/local_story_039120626?keyword=secondary
> story_ 
> (http://www.newburyportnews.com/pulife/local_story_039120626?
keyword=secondarystory)
> 
> Published:  February 08, 2007 12:00 am          
>  
> Rediscovering old verses; Recording artist continues mission to celebrate  
> the poetry of John Greenleaf Whittier
>  
> By Jennie Rundlett , Correspondent
> Daily News of Newburyport
>  
> 
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>  
> AMESBURY - A burning interest in Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier has  
> inspired a recording artist who grew up in Dover, N.H., to highlight the
> verses  
> he believes many people have lost sight of over the years. 
>  
> And with 2007 marking Whittier's 200th birthday, Michael Maglaras, founder 
> 
> of 217 Records, feels it is the perfect time to help people rediscover what
> he  
> describes as Whittier's illuminating poetry. 
>  
> Whittier was born in Haverhill and spent most of his later life in  Amesbury,
> 
> writing poetry about New England subjects and situations. He died in  1892,
> 
> yet Maglaras said his name continues to live on, especially in the New 
> England 
> area.
>  
> "He is one of the most important people in America," said Maglaras, who has 
> 
> set out to record Whittier's poetry in a three-part series of CDs. "But not a
>  
> whole lot of people read his work and we need to revisit that."
>  
>  
>