Posted by Brio D Chimp on April 24, 2004, at 19:12:21
Franz Wright who won the Pulitzer prize for poetry this year for "Walking to Martha's Vineyard" is interviewed on NPR today. You can hear the interview here.
http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_1850232.html
He is a wonderful poet, he had a difficult childhood, battles with addictions, mental illness, bipolar......
He converted to catholicism. He said writing poetry saved him from depression.
Redemption
Something for everyoneI like this poem of his I found online
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http://www.webdelsol.com/Perihelion/wright.htmReunion
Snow over the scarred fields just ending, between clouds
a candle in a horse skull
moon
at dawn--
My sin is always before me.
In the end the price of understanding
everything will be, of
its communication
to those who stand around you,
the complete and absolute
impossibility,
but
does this mean
I won't remember
Earth? Perhaps
it does, but
I don't know.
Soon I will find out.
Snow over
the scarred fields
just ending,
what lies
before me is my past.
That is,
should I father a fatherless child.
poster:Brio D Chimp
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