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 MARCH 15, 2012. This is one of Wordsworth’s earliest poems. Even though it is early in his career, it contains much that we would consider to be lyrical and “Wordsworthian”: nature, emotion, and the individual. Enjoy! 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 October 22, 2011. When I lived in Chicago I would occasionally go to a little bar to read and study over a pint of Guinness. And to watch Cubs games in the spring and fall. One Read more
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Throwback Thursdays” at ClimbingSky feature posts I wrote over a a 15 year period for various blogs. This was first posted on March 13, 2011. For the most part, I do not have much interest in urban poets or urban poetry. There is so little variety in the urban landscape and milieu that there is really only 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 January 29, 2011 There is a peculiar irony that this poem about a famous poet’s death was written by a poet who died so anonymously that his body was not found for several days 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 July 18, 2011. In the North Country, it is high summer. The heat and humidity weigh upon us and we live indoors as much as possible… just like we do in January. Again, we Read more
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THE ABCS OF SPIRIT(while Xerxes yields zilch) by M.A.H. HInton 1.a book can disturb even famous godsHectorIsisJunokarma leaves much neglectedone philosopher quietly relatesspirit toto undermining virtue while Xerxes yields zilch 2.allusive but carved devilishly effective from good hardwoodI join Kierkegaard loving more nuanced opinions professed quietlyradiant spirits that understate virtuositywhile Xerxes yields zilch Read more
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THE NEW ROMANTICS by M.A.H. Hinton another perfect lawnno more naturalthan the fauxwrought-iron gateor the little waterfall and pond that bubblethe same empty wateragain and again looking next doorwe see sneaky weedsand wild grassgathering on the edgesof neighboring lawnsready for counter-attack turning our backson so much empty perfectionwe move towardan abandoned lotacross the street our 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 February 19, 2011. Thom Gunn was born in Britain but is associated more often with San Francisco and the excesses of American bohemianism than with the country of his birth. Yet his poetry has 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 February 10, 2011 Richard Hugo is one of a number of Montana poets and writers who came from somewhere else and settled in Montana as an adult. Unlike Thomas McGuane, for example, who is 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 February 4, 2011 When I think of Mark Van Doren, I always think of Thomas Merton. That is because it was Merton that first led me to read Van Doren, or rather, reading Merton’s Seven Read more
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