I wish I had written this–one of my favorites of his.
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I wish I had written this–one of my favorites of his.
This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 at 10:10 pm and is filed under poetry. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Be Not Inhospitable to Strangers
Oh oh oh……..I love that poem, love it, I read it a couple of times before but I’ve never heard him read it and that makes a BIG difference, though it’s pretty close to perfection already. That is his defining poem, if you ask me.
poetry should be heard
whoa… that is intensely powerful… and the voice over makes it inescapable…. bravo!!!
I wrote a comment to this. Was it censored?
Apologies for my last remark. I cannot imagine you censoring even my wildest comments. must have forgotten to press a button. Or commented on the wrong post. I’d said something like:
“I never heard Buk’s voice before. He sounds delightfully unpretentious, with the sincerity that shines through words I’d only seen on a page before. Since we don’t have bluebirds over here, I can only imagine what they symbolize. But that is perhaps true of all poetry. We can only imagine.”
Thanks Vincent
I would love for you to take the challenge–
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