Edward R. Weismiller
Auteur de Walking Toward the Sun
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Œuvres de Edward R. Weismiller
The Faultless Shore 2 exemplaires
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Firsts: 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets (Yale Series of Younger Poets) (2019) — Contributeur — 12 exemplaires
Phonetics and Phonology: Rhythm and Meter (Phonetics & Phonology) (1989) — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
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Sea Horse
You might think it would leap the waves
in a white fire of foam
racing, eyes mad with what might
be delight:
a runaway, or loosed from a god’s
team, galloping in its vast
pasture. But this one
was the size of a brooch, thin, and red-gold, and still.
The children had sent for it
from the Atlantic.
It arrived by air in a pouch of seawater containing
all it needed to sustain life as it crossed the continent.
Following instructions
we made it a small, nourishing ocean
in which it anchored itself upright
to a strand of seaweed, and, staring jewel-eyed
at nothing, slowly faded white
and died.
Such poignancy without bathos, craft without pretension, simple language without prosaism.
I wish I had met Weismiller's poetry before. I wish he had written more. I heartily recommend this collection.… (plus d'informations)