Saturday 12 December 2009
This is just to say...
...that occasionally you read a poem that really blows you away. I've been enjoying John James' Collected Poems a great deal in general, and I've been reading it in chronological order, but earlier I skipped ahead a little and, picking up again at random, read a poem called The Conversation. Amazing, exhilirating, and genuinely uplifting. Read it, even if you read nothing else by James (although you really should!)
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Fantastic poet. One of the reasons why the perpetual divisions in poetry are so dumb. He's so good, and communicates so well, he should be much better known.
Yes, I totally agree, Steven. Glad to have come across some poems of his in a recent Tears In The Fence - I bought the Collected on the strength of them.
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