I love reading big poetry epics and sagas. My idea of a fun time might be reading Beowulf in the J.R.R. Tolkien or Seamus Heaney translations, or even the translation I read in my college textbook, the Norton Anthology of English Literature. (I still have it, more than 50 years later.) Then there’s reading and rereading the stories told in verse form by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – The Song of Hiawatha, Evangeline, and The Courtship of Miles Standish.
Epics and sagas are feasts, but a diet exclusively composed of feasts would quickly become boring and meaningless, losing and sense of “special-ness.” The vast majority of what we consume is everyday meals; the vast majority of the poetry I read is what I would call the poetry of the everyday. And few posts excel at the poetry of the everyday like Gabrielle Myers. Consider her new collection, Points in the Network.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.
Some Tuesday Readings
The Truth Eludes Even Old Men – Tara Isabella Burton at The Free Press on Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot.
Poetry Club Date: True North – Tweetspeak Poetry.
“Down by the Salley Gardens,” poem by William Butler Yeats – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.
A Conversation with Jared Carter, Part 1 – Sunil Iyengar at New Verse Review.
Taxonomy of Churning – poem by Erin Murphy at Every Day Poems.
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