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MG-Enjoyed his photos. Interesting perspective. As Nord Star says, by taking pictures the art lies in the framing.
Good poem. Liked it not only for artistically reasons.
Gilad Meiri
http://www.poetryinternationalweb.ne...12/Gilad-Meiri
http://www.poetryinternationalweb.ne...JERUSALEM-2004
http://www.lyrikline.org/en/poems/12864
GM: His poetry using nano-poetics is interesting. The poem JERUSALEM 2004 is a mingling of the here and now with antiquity, while The House is Upside Down is a whimsical musing over untidiness.
Matteo Maria Boiardo... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matteo_Maria_Boiardo
http://newsletter.tarotstudies.org/2.../boiardo-poem/
MMB-Impressive life (first governor in this collection). Very interesting the relation of the poem to the Tarot Cards. I found this link where one can see the early development of some of the cards:http://trionfi.com/0/j/d/boiardo/
Barbara Holland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Holland
Quote:
SCAVENGER
AM A WANDERER with dirty feet
peering through the ventails of the visored faces,
sniffing the breaths of open doors,
waiting beneath the ledges of the careless windows
for sounds that might spill over
for my claws to catch
and crack for the extraction of a swarm of things,
large-eyed and catfoot careful
of the nerves they walk.
I am a brokerage for shares in storms;
the mendicant, more bowl than ego, hollowed up
to lurch of moon, a dagger catcher stopping Leonids.
I am the prowler of the noon-white streets,
the closet audience of somnambulists, the ear
that bites, the eye that masticates, the nerve that sings.
I am the wanderer with dirty feet
who wipes worlds from existence by removing dirt.
https://www.poetspress.org/Holland_Collected_Poems1.pdf
Tarot: Interesting article. BH: Quite the character; an eye for the dark side at times... more - https://www.poetspress.org/fp_holland.shtml
Henry S. Taylor... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_S._Taylor
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...s/detail/54134
HST-Liked the poem very much. But if it was mine I would rename it "The way it almost always is".
Thelonious Monk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelonious_Monk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Di_mswqhLU
TM: Like Hermeto Paschoal he played with Miles Davis (whom we will explore next). Only second (though monumentally distant to Duke Ellington who is first) as the most-recorded jazz composer. His performance showed his single-mindedness and rapid-fired precision while playing the ivories; a master of dissonance.
Miles Davis... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eza4EguCb7o
MD-Listening to his nostalgic music while completing the trio.
Duke Ellington
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkLBSLxo5LE
http://www.redhotjazz.com/duke.html
DE: Timeless.
Ella Fitzgerald... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Fitzgerald
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEaDj6TXiQQ
Love her! A favourite:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2bigf337aU
Friedrich von Schiller
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Schiller
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hymn-to-joy/
EF: "Summertime" - Some interesting contrasts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYUqbnk7tCY and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn5TNqjuHiU and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkKo-jXl2CQ FvS: "In September 2008, Schiller was voted by the audience of the TV channel Arte as the second most important playwright in Europe after William Shakespeare."... Most impressive. LvB had it easy setting FvS's poem to music, it jumps right out at you.
Stevie Smith... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_Smith
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...s/detail/46843
Interesting interpretations, there are several more. Found another one I liked a lot:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVNiubIXHf4.
Simon Armitage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Armitage
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/about-his-person/
Summertime/SV: Sultry with a nice vibrato. SA: A very accomplished contemporary poet. "no gold or silver,/but crowning one finger/a ring of white unweathered skin."... An interesting tension set up in the poem.
Akiko Yosano... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akiko_Yosano
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/river-of-stars/
AY-Poetry and 13 children. Poem has a nostalgic quality.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Yevtushenko
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/eight-year-old-poet/
YY: Very recently passed on. Wikipedia: "In 1957, he was expelled from the Literary Institute for "individualism"/"Brodsky repeatedly criticised Yevtushenko for what he perceived as his "conformism""... guy can't catch a break. Fortunate not to have been exiled or otherwise from the Soviet State. "All of us are secret children, /and we’ll never grow up completely"
Yves Bonnefoy... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Bonnefoy
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-museum-3/
YB-"The Museum"- Interesting parallel between the raging tempest and the content of the pictures.
Beverley Bie Brahic
http://www.beverleybiebrahic.com/
https://fromtroublesofthisw orld.wordpress.com/tag/beverley-bie-brahic/