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.
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
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