Curious what everyone's favorite lit crit about poetry is. I'm specifically looking for anything about metered poetry rather than free verse. I don't have a particular period in mind beyond traditional form being a component of the criticism.
If something about poetry comes to mind that doesn't fit this, I'm still interested, but please let me know which category it fits.
Found this old cell phone footage in an email and thought I’d share. This was June 12th, 2009 and we tried this shot like 10 times. He hit the longest manual I’ve ever seen in person. We were 13 and 14 here and I miss these days like crazy. I’ve had to become an adult without him. I’ve been thinking about him a lot as it’ll soon be ten years since he passed in 2016. I know people will wonder so I’ll just answer preemptively that it was fentanyl; I know that a lot of you have a similar story to tell. My heart breaks again to remember it.
Whenever I think of him, I remember this poem by Wendell Berry:
“A Meeting”
In a dream I meet
my dead friend. He has,
I know, gone long and far,
and yet he is the same
for the dead are changeless.
They grow no older.
It is I who have changed,
grown strange to what I was.
Yet I, the changed one,
ask: "How you been?"
He grins and looks at me.
"I been eating peaches
off some mighty fine trees."
Edit: following two clips are from that following November. I thought they weren’t included in the upload.
If I have already installed Linux with the custom kernel in the directions, will I have to do so again if I change distro? I have been having various issues and want to start fresh but don't want to repeat this whole process if it is unnecessary.
Been reading the intro to the B&N Classics edition I have as an ebook and was surprised to learn that Thoreau was dismissed (and praised) as an amateur naturalist in his time and reevaluated as a proto modernist for his writing style and focus on metaphor, language, and consciousness in the 1900s.
Huge numbers of these live beneath a tree that produces these hard little berries. Curious what they are. This is in Taiwan, if that helps.