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links for Jorie Graham

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_qofMFbNNM

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onh52RLmozg

 

http://www.joriegraham.com/

 

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/58

 

http://www.poemhunter.com/jorie-graham/

 

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=2661

 

 

 

"Jorie Graham is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including her most recent, Sea Change (Ecco, 2008). She has also edited two anthologies, Earth Took of Earth: 100 Great Poems of the English Language (1996) and The Best American Poetry 1990. She is widely anthologized and her poetry is the subject of many essays, including Jorie Graham: Essays on the Poetry; Edited by Thomas Gardner (2005). Graham's many honors include a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship and The Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994 won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She served as a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 1997 to 2003, and she currently sits on the contributing editorial board to the literary journal Conjunctions. She has taught at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and is currently the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University."

 

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Various poems inspired by famous people:

http://allpoetry.com/list/32270-Inspired-by-Famous-People

 

 
My columns on various writers and painters:

 
 
 
 
 

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  • Danny Beatty gold member
    October 30
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    two quotes from Jorie's poetry below do not resemble her beautiful formatting

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    I cannot fail, this Saturday, early pm, hurling myself,
    wiry furies riding my many backs, against your foundations and your
    best young
    tree, which you have come outside to stake again, & the loose stones in the sill.

    Jorie Graham "Sea Change"

    and as for the great mantle of
    individuality (gleaming) &
    innocence and fortune – look up: the torturer yawns waiting for his day to be
    done – he leans against
    the trees for a rest, the implement shines, he looks up.

    Jorie Graham "Sea Change"
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    Jorie Graham is our greatest living writer, the shaman of our age. All else is as mist. This will be remembered as the dark age of poetry, and devolution, the age when human beings lost their place as things worthy of life, with one blinding light of exception.

    .... Danny Beatty


    • Night Hope gold member
      October 30
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      I heartily concur, my Baby. Thank you for sharing her newest, and for gifting me with her collection. As you know, it's inspired at least 20 poems from me so far. ♥

  • Rowan gold member
    October 30
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    I love it when you post poets, some of them I recognize, some I had forgotten, thanks hon!


    • Night Hope gold member
      October 30
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      I'm glad, Kathleen. There is genius raging out there and we must include them in our circle of fire, as well. Not long ago, Danny gave me her book, "The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994", the one selected for the 1996 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. It's inspired me to write at least 20 of my recent poems so far. It's very intelligent and yet, very approachable writing.