Here is a link to part of an interview with the affable Michael Ondaatje--on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF717oAYvWo
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Sunday, September 27, 2009
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Poets Born In September
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Who are/were some poets born in September? I'm glad you asked.
Theodore Storm, German poet. What a great last name for a poet. "Hi. Storm's the name, and poetry's the game."
T.S. Eliot, American and British poet, also known as Tse Tse [fly]--one of Ezra Pound's nicknames for him; and as Old Possum.
Robert Burns, poetic king of Scottish poetry and song. Allesandro Tassoni--Italian, as you might have guessed.
Siegfried Sassoon, British poet and "trench poet" from the Great War. Reed Whittemore--also a translator, if memory serves.
William Carlos Williams, American (of course), and one of those poets from whom other poets may learn a lot (in my opinion).
Michael Ondaatje, Canadian poet and novelist. He published a book of poems with "rat jelly" in the title. How great is that?
Jaroslav Seifert, Czech poet. I wonder if George Siefert, former coach of the San Francisco 49ers, is related to him.
Elinor Wylie--American poet, novelist, and nonfiction writer.
And Edith Sitwell, officially Dame Edith Sitwell, British poet. My favorite poem by her may be "Still Falls The Rain," and I have a recording of her reading it.
So much depends upon the red wheel barrow and on September poetic birthdays. I also have a brother who was born in September. The gift is in the mail, bro.
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Who are/were some poets born in September? I'm glad you asked.
Theodore Storm, German poet. What a great last name for a poet. "Hi. Storm's the name, and poetry's the game."
T.S. Eliot, American and British poet, also known as Tse Tse [fly]--one of Ezra Pound's nicknames for him; and as Old Possum.
Robert Burns, poetic king of Scottish poetry and song. Allesandro Tassoni--Italian, as you might have guessed.
Siegfried Sassoon, British poet and "trench poet" from the Great War. Reed Whittemore--also a translator, if memory serves.
William Carlos Williams, American (of course), and one of those poets from whom other poets may learn a lot (in my opinion).
Michael Ondaatje, Canadian poet and novelist. He published a book of poems with "rat jelly" in the title. How great is that?
Jaroslav Seifert, Czech poet. I wonder if George Siefert, former coach of the San Francisco 49ers, is related to him.
Elinor Wylie--American poet, novelist, and nonfiction writer.
And Edith Sitwell, officially Dame Edith Sitwell, British poet. My favorite poem by her may be "Still Falls The Rain," and I have a recording of her reading it.
So much depends upon the red wheel barrow and on September poetic birthdays. I also have a brother who was born in September. The gift is in the mail, bro.
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