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Like a lotus leaf’s evaporating dew I, too  vanish. — Senryu Here are some English translations of jisei, or Japanese death poems. Not all ...

My last post was about Auden's thought that "poetry makes nothing happen," which questions seeing poetry as political or able ...

W. H. Auden famously asserted that "poetry makes nothing happen” in his 1939 elegy  “In Memory of W. B. Yeats.”     By writing that, Au...

When I looked at the September calendar, I noticed the Autumn Equinox is on the 22nd. The first thing I thought of was being told as a kid t...

An article in The New York Times, " These 20 Words Are Worth a Thousand Pictures ," suggests that Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of t...