[New-Poetry] Dark Horses

[jforjames at aol.com]

Rob, reading the Twichell poem is a?reminder?a vital strain in poetry that has produced so many wonderful
and interesting poems. Clumsily I'll call it the 'human-animal contact' poem, many with eco-poetic notions 
embedded in their content. 

A few that?came?to mind reading the Twichell poem were...
"The Snake" by DH Lawrence
"Traveling Through the Dark" by William Stafford
"The Moose" by Elizabeth Bishop
"Ahdaam Kai Ava" Linda Gregg
"Apology for Bad Dreams" (among other poems by Robinson Jeffers 
"The Blessing" by James Wright
"Song" Bridget Pegeen Kelly
"The Wheelfleet Whale" by Stanley Kunitz

There's a 'theme anthology' waiting to be gathered, if one hasn't been assembled.

Finnegan



-----Original Message-----
From: robert e. watling jr. <rewatlingjr at comcast.net>
To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp; Views <new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu>
Sent: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 10:46 pm
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Dark Horses


On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 15:04:30 -0800, <JforJames at aol.com> wrote:?
?
> The Ruiner of Lives?
>?
> Who knows how things end up,?
> spliced together in the mind.?
> Last night the car was lugging?
> up the long hill toward home?
> when a fox came sleepwalking?
?
Wonderful poem. Thank you. I know this was a post about a book but the poem over powered me. I have had similar fox experiences and am trying to distill them into a poem. I think I'll work on that tonight. Thanks again...Rob.?
?
--"Cogito ergo...how does that go again?"...rewjr.?
_______________________________________________?
New-Poetry mailing list?
New-Poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu?
http://wiz.cath.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/new-poetry?

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://wiz.cath.vt.edu/pipermail/new-poetry/attachments/20081207/496ecf7f/attachment.html