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Beneath Cherry Blossoms - The Lilliput Review Blog

Friday, 20 July 2007

Weather-Beaten Trees ...


 

Generally, I plan to be posting a new entry once a week, more frequently when time allows.   Currently, I'm reading a recent translation of Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil, Verse by Adelaide Crapsey and a selection of the art and poetry of d.a.levy entitled The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle.

I first ran across the work of Adelaide Crapsey in one of those inexpensive anthologies of poetry produced by Dover Publications entitled Imagist Poetry.   I have since discovered that she was the inventor of the cinquain, a form I often see in poems sent to Lilliput.  The Imagist movement was greatly influenced by one of the first waves of interest in all things Eastern in the West, and the cinquain as a form owes much to the East in its striking imagery and precise condensation.  Though not a cinquain, the following is my favorite poem by Adelaide.

On Seeing Weather-Beaten Trees

Is it as plainly in our living shown,

By slant and twist, which way the wind hath blown?

Adelaide Crapsey

 

From Lilliput #103, April 1999, two poems:

 

One Breath

One of your breaths contains

          all the air

               a Mayfly breathes

          in its life 

Antler

 

Poetry is that

conversation we could not

otherwise have had.

Cid Corman 

 


 

 


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