POETRY REVIEWS
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Throwback Thursdays” at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on November, 23, 2010 While today Percy Bysshe Shelley is generally recognized as one of the shining lights of English poetry, during his own lifetime and for a generation after his death he was not so widely Read more
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The best way to learn about poetry is to read poetry, and to read poets talking about it. With that in mind, over the next month I will be highlighting a number of books that feature poets talking about poetry, beginning with the book Poetry and Ambition: Essays 1982–88 by Donald Hall. The greatest challenge in reviewing Read more
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There is no poet that I have spent more time with than W.B. Yeats. I have read and reread his Collected Poems more times than I can count. If I had to get rid of all the books I own but one, his Collected Poems is the book I would keep. To my mind, there Read more
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Poet Louise Glück (1943-2023) was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. Though she attended both Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University, she never received a degree. Glück’s poems are spare, mythic, and beautiful. She doesn’t waste words or images. If poetry is defined as being Read more
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The month of January here at ClimbingSky this year is dedicated to Poetry. It is something I read every day, wrestle with most days, and has been a constant in my life since my teen years. For those counting, that is five decades now and counting. I am not sure how many books of poetry, Read more
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The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. -Dylan Thomas Read more
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I have mentioned here before that I have a small collection of poems on my iPhone called “Poems in My Pocket.” They are poems that I reread again and again. One of these poems—and probably my favorite Carl Sandburg poem—is “Three Pieces on the Smoke of Autumn.” It is Sandburg at his best and most Read more
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“I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world….” ~ W. B. Yeats Read more
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Throwback Thursdays” at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on December 02, 2012. The second day of December brings a foggy morning to the North Country. Out my back window only the black silhouettes of a few winter-bare trees and the nearest houses are visible. The rest Read more
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Throwback Thursdays” at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on December 11, 2011. Winter has come to the North Country. Last year by this time we were already buried under snow and had much more still to come. This year there has been just two dustings, Read more
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