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Against Death Anthology
It is Marvellous to Wake Up Together by Elizabeth Bishop from The Writer’s Amanac
a marvellous discovery of poems by Elizabeth Bishop, one of my favorite poets!!
by Elizabeth Bishop
It is marvellous to wake up together At the same minute; marvellous to hear The rain begin suddenly all over the roof, To feel the air suddenly clear As if electricity had passed through it From a black mesh of wires in the sky. All over the roof the rain hisses, And below, the light falling of kisses. An electrical storm is coming or moving away; It is the prickling air that wakes us up. If lighting struck the house now, it would run From the four blue china balls on top Down the roof and down the rods all around us, And we imagine dreamily How the whole house caught in a bird-cage of lightning Would be quite delightful rather than frightening; And from the same simplified point of view Of night and lying flat on one’s back All things might change equally easily, Since always to warn us there must be these black Electrical wires dangling. Without surprise The…
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One Life: Sylvia Plath (1932-63): foremother poet
Reveries Under the Sign of Austen, Two
Photo taken during Plath’s college years — this is one of my favorites (not in the exhibit)
One of several self-portraits in the exhibit — she is imitating the popular “abstract” style of the 1950s
Pursuit By Sylvia Plath
Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit.
RacineThere is a panther stalks me down:
One day I’ll have my death of him;
His greed has set the woods aflame,
He prowls more lordly than the sun.Most soft, most suavely glides that step,
Advancing always at my back;
From gaunt hemlock, rooks croak havoc:
The hunt is on, and sprung the trap.Flayed by thorns I trek the rocks,
Haggard through the hot white noon.
Along red network of his veins
What fires run, what craving wakes?Insatiate, he ransacks the land
Condemned by our ancestral fault,
Crying: blood, let blood be spilt;
Meat must glut his mouth’s…
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Judith Barrington
Source: Judith Barrington