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  • Reflections on Pinsky's essay & reading of Moore's "Poetry"

    Ms. Marianne Moore was a poetC'mon now, admit it, you know itDid rewriting her verseMake it better or worse?And in quoting herself, did she blow it? Write image-'n airy words on a pageFor illusion, today, is the rageStill a real frog will dieIt must eat a real flyClever words do not make one a sageNow I wonder, beyond Earthly graveDid she take ...
    Posted to Poems by NoStar on June 30, 2009