Wednesday, January 21, 2009
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from Billy Collins' "Marginalia"
We have all seized the white perimeter as our own/and reached for a pen if only to show/we did not just laze in an armchair turning pages;/we pressed a thought into the wayside,/planted an impression along the verge.
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The lists that follow provide a gimpse into my literary imagination should you, gentle reader (tee-hee), have an interest in such minutiae. May you enjoy them as much as I.
Poems
- "A Piece of the Storm," Mark Strand
- "Marginalia," Billy Collins
- "Put Something In," Shel Silverstein
- "Red like Rust," Jonathan Johnson
- "Reluctance," Robert Frost
- "Saint Judas," James Wright
- "Sweet and Low, Sweet and Low," Tennyson
- "The Second Coming," W.B. Yeats
- "This is Just to Say," William Carlos Williams
- "Voices of Poor People," Czeslaw Milosz
- The Inferno, Dante (Hollander & Hollander translation)
- So many more. So many more . . .
Fiction
- "Bezhin Lea," Ivan Turgenev
- "The Student," Anton Chekhov
- Adam Bede, George Eliot
- All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
- Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery
- Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
- Middlemarch, George Eliot
- Not Without Laughter, Langston Hughes
- Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
- The Brothers Karamazov, Fydor Dostoevsky
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara
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