Another of my favorite authors/poets -- brilliant, but also one with the City of Chicago:
A snippet from his poem Chicago (full text at the link)
And having answered so I turn once more to those who
sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer
and say to them:
Come and show me another city with lifted head singing
so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning...
3 comments:
I'm learning new things about you all the time. I didn't know that you were such a poetry (and Shakespeare) buff until I started reading your blog. I don't dislike it, but I never can quite grasp what the poet is trying to get across-----just say it in plain English, I say! And it just goes to show how very smart you are!
Did you, TJW, post that last comment yourself??
Or did Mom make the comment from her computer in Newburgh (which now probably thinks she's you, since you were blogging on that computer over Thanskgiving)?
Mom - if it's you, don't forget to change your identity next time you comment!
I did not publish. It must have been Nana. Or a secret admirer. :)
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