Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them
A Nonfiction, Anthologies, Poetry book. Love After Love The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your...
Grown men don't cry.But in this fascinating anthology, one hundred men - distinguished in literature and film, science and architecture, theater and human rights - confess to being moved to tears by poems that continue to haunt them. Representing twenty nationalities and ranging in age from their early 20s to their late 80s, the majority are public figures not prone to crying. Here they admit to breaking down when ambushed by great art, often in words as powerful as the poems themselves.Their selections include classics by visionaries such as Walt Whitman, W.H Auden, and Philip...
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Not Cancelled Yet Some honorary day if I play my cards right I might be a postage stamp but I wont be there to lick me and licking is what I liked, in tasty anticipation of the long dark slither from the mailbox, from box to pouch to hand to bag to box to slot to hand: that box is best whose lid slams open as well as shut, admitting a parcel of daylight, the green top of a tree, and a flickering of fingers, letting go. Anthony Holden, Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them // The Book Burnings When the regime ordered that books with harmful knowledge Should be publicly burnt, and all around Oxen were forced to drag cartloads of books To the pyre, one banished poet One of the best, discovered, studying the list of the burnt To his horror, that his books Had been forgotten. He hurried to his desk On wings of rage and wrote a letter to the powers that be. Burn me! he wrote, his pen flying, burn me! Dont do this to me! Dont pass me over! Have I not always told The truth in my books? And now I am treated by you as a liar! I order... 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. Anthony Holden, Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men on the Words That Move Them //
Some I really liked, some I couldn't connect with and some I didn't much care for. Consider this a rating between 3-4 stars. Just somewhere in between. Thank you Afreen for the recommendation, this was my fill in book for times when I was waiting for time to pass and had nothing to do but sit and wait. Sort of a coffee-table book in which artsy celebrities say a few words of introduction about poems they've liked. 1) Celebrities plugging poetry is a phenomenon I welcome, and 2) A few of these poems are quite lovely. I enjoyed the introductions to each poems and it really gave great context to the material. Definitely some moving pieces of poetry here.
