Today's poem is "O'Hara Late in the Day"
from Drinking with O'Hara
Glenn Freeman
has published four collections, Drinking with O'Hara (Gunpowder Press), Traveling Light (CW Editions), Keeping the Tigers Behind Us (Elixir Press), and Fading Proofs (Q Ave Press). He lives in small-town Iowa where he teaches writing and American literature and watches his tomatoes grow.
Books by Glenn Freeman:
Other poems on the web by Glenn Freeman:
Three poems
Two poems
"Fourteen Notebook Fragments after My Mother's Death"
"Internet Word of the Day: Hemidemisemiquaver"
"Original Mind"
Three poems
"I'm Thinking Two Versions of a Sonnet in Dialog with Gerald Stern's 'I Remember Galileo"
"Ada's Will "
Glenn Freeman on Twitter.
About Drinking with O'Hara:
"It's a hard thing, not knowing, and learning about the death and despair of those who were once close, once known, becoming a 'caesura /in the shortened line /a breath /in the midst of /the ongoing world.' Here, subtle formal aspects catch us by surprise, elegiac lines situate us in and outside of time as these poems move easily from narrative to lyric meditations."
"What amazing powers of attention to the natural world and human interaction alike, an attention that keeps on digging 'to where the rhythm runs true.'In repetition and variation, in free and fixed forms, Freeman reminds us of the capacity of art to remain in dialogwith self, with othersto sustain intimacy and connection, especially in the most isolating moments."
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Mira Rosenthal
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