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I take the moonlight on my tongue and drink the linden-blossomed air, remembering when I was young and mouthed the same unanswered prayer. Peter, MN Craft of writing talk followed by poetry reading. Their rich language and metrical music draw us in, and give form to a wild and imaginative journey of ideas.
Anchoring it all is a cosmic sense of humor. The effect is enchanting. Orbital Paths is chockablock with signal pleasures, and reading it leaves one enlivened and renewed.
Ballade for the Last Move
Heads up when you travel this road. Many of these poems sparkle with delightful humor, and in some the clever wit casts a dark shadow. From backyard birds to frozen waterfalls to a gun toting god, these carefully constructed, accessible poems will entertain and enlighten.
This is a seasoned debut collection that smoothly melds science, religion, nature and the quotidian with wit and protean intelligence to achieve original insights and cosmic fun. By turns playful and dark and sometimes both , he puts a fresh spin on common experience, and gets fresh with the likes of Donne, Marvell, and Dickinson as he riffs on poems from the Western canon.
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Perhaps his greatest gift is his knack for arresting figures of speech: He addresses abiding themes of love and death and destiny in poems that are sometimes humorous, sometimes grave, and over and over again striking for the directness of their aim—answering what may puzzle or confound us about being human with a well-crafted, sympathetic music.
Yet Meyer is a man of our time, full of doubt and wonder as he gazes at the stars that are the subject of many of the poems. He wasn't making any money farming, and after he got his girlfriend Jean Armour pregnant, he decided he needed to find a way to support his new family — not to mention his illegitimate one-year-old daughter, whose mother was a servant in the Burns household and wanted money.
Burns accepted a friend's offer to work as a clerk in Jamaica, and was set to leave in September.
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A few weeks before his departure date, he published Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect , hoping to raise enough money to pay his fare to Jamaica. Instead, the book was so successful that Burns began to doubt if he should leave Scotland. Then Jean gave birth to twins.
At the same time, he received word that Scottish poet Thomas Blacklock liked his book and encouraged him to come to Edinburgh. Blacklock to a friend of mine overthrew all my schemes, by opening new prospects to my poetic ambition.
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The Doctor belonged to a set of critics for whose applause I had not dared to hope. His opinion that I would meet with encouragement in Edinburgh for a second edition, fired me so much, that away I posted for that city, without a single acquaintance, or a single letter of introduction.
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The story goes that during his two-day trip to Edinburgh, he was entertained lavishly by farmers eager to meet the poet. A friend of his had arranged for a farmhouse where he could stay for the night. There were so many people excited to see Burns that when he arrived, one farmer raised a makeshift flag — a white sheet tied to a pitchfork — and on cue all the neighboring farmers arrived to host Burns for a huge meal.
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He rode on to another farmhouse for a large breakfast the next morning, and yet another farm for lunch. By evening of the second day, he finally arrived in Edinburgh. He was delighted by his reception there, and everyone's enthusiasm about publishing a second edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. About a week after his arrival, he wrote in a letter: Erskine, have taken me under their wing; and by all probability, I shall soon be the tenth worthy, and the eighth wise man of the world.