Re: Seymour's poetry
William Hochman (wh14@is9.nyu.edu)
Fri, 01 Oct 1999 07:37:46 -0400 (EDT)
Tomorrow is Stevens's birthday and here in Hartford I feel his words...in
fact I wondered as I walked Holden in a lovely park last evening I
realized I had moved to new england where my favorite writers lived or
live...been working through journey after journey and really enjoyed the
stevens-salinger linking here. Scottie's disdain expected,
Pleasure Cruise
Unhappy facts fall snow-like in July
as elder young turks set last sail for wind
and shipwreck answers home to harbour
more emptiness and peril than skipping
floating stones from coast to hope
They sail with a mast of nothing more
than reaching up to grasp antarctic glare
which knows too little of glowing warmth
to wink if only with their glad dying
dearly departed and docking here
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c 1999 will hochman