[New-Poetry] Tiny poems/Robert Bly

[Anny Ballardini]

What about our old/new/dear Emily? They are all tiny poems.

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 6:08 PM, David Graham <grahamd at ripon.edu> wrote:

> Out of print now but still available used is Robert Bly's anthology *The
> Sea & the Honeycomb:  A Book of Tiny Poems,* from Beacon Press.  Including,
> as you might expect, a good many translations.
> Lots of good stuff in it.  Here's one I've loved for thirty-eight years,
> and one I don't believe I've ever seen anthologized elsewhere.
>
> *At the Desk*
>
> I spent the entire day in official details;
> And  it almost pulled me down like the others:
> I felt that tiny insane voluptuousness,
> Getting this done, finally finishing that.
>
> --Theodor Storm, trans. Robert Bly.  *The Sea & the Honeycomb:  A Book of
> Tiny Poems*.  ed. Robert Bly.  Beacon Press, 1971.
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> On Jun 30, 2009, at 10:59 AM, David Graham wrote:
>
> Hey, I thought 5 lines was pretty small, especially for Whitman!  Well,
> they are long lines, yes.
> Here's a 3-liner I've long loved.
>
> *A FARM PICTURE.*
>
> Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn,
> A sunlit pasture field with cattle and horses feeding,
> And haze and vista, and the far horizon fading away.
>
> --Whitman
>
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> On Jun 30, 2009, at 10:33 AM, TheOldMole wrote:
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> Beautiful but not tiny.
>
> Graham, David wrote:
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>       I HEARD YOU, SOLEMN-SWEET PIPES OF THE ORGAN.
>
> I HEARD you, solemn-sweet pipes of the organ, as last          Sunday morn
> I pass'd the church;
> Winds of autumn!—as I walk'd the woods at dusk, I          heard your
> long-stretch'd sighs, up above, so          mournful;
> I heard the perfect Italian tenor, singing at the opera—I          heard
> the soprano in the midst of the quartet singing;
> …Heart of my love!—you too I heard, murmuring low,          through one of
> the wrists around my head;
> Heard the pulse of you, when all was still, ringing little          bells
> last night under my ear.
>
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> David Graham
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> On Jun 30, 2009, at 9:49 AM, "Graham, David" <GrahamD at ripon.edu <
> mailto:GrahamD at ripon.edu <GrahamD at ripon.edu>>> wrote:
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>
> Sorry about the blank I just fired. Still getting used to emailing on my
> new iTouch.
>
> A brilliant writer of tiny poems who may not show up on everyone's list is
> Walt Whitman.
>
>
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> David Graham
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