[New-Poetry] Backwards poetry

David Graham grahamd at ripon.edu
Wed Sep 24 13:07:11 EDT 2008


Oooooooooh!  Waters of Childhood:  Good suggestion. And thanks, Chris, for
reminding me also of the Creeley.

I'd never read the Pack "Snow Rise" before, either.

Thanks thanks thanks.






On 9/24/08 10:59 AM, "TheOldMole" <Opus40-01 at opus40.org> wrote:

> What about Mark Strand's "Where are the Waters of Childhood?"
> 
> John Jeffrey wrote:
>> The Robert Pack poem you're thinking of is "The Boat" ("I dressed my
>> father in his little clothes").  Pack's got another called, too,
>> called "Snow Rise" ("Dreaming time has reversed, I watch drowned
>> snow/Appear to lift up from the lake").
>> 


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