tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4970554022397463322.post3988816935681664753..comments2024-03-26T03:11:42.678-04:00Comments on Behind Their Lines: Balancing on a broken worldConnie R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00887098543181126157noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4970554022397463322.post-28700157688444177292018-02-20T23:42:04.090-05:002018-02-20T23:42:04.090-05:00So happy you're going to post more of Lowell&#...So happy you're going to post more of Lowell's poetry! And thanks for sharing her wonderful quotation on her "quasi-Oriental idiom." Connie R.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00887098543181126157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4970554022397463322.post-15271448584388267682018-02-20T07:14:45.797-05:002018-02-20T07:14:45.797-05:00Thanks for reminding us of Lowell.
I just unearth...Thanks for reminding us of Lowell.<br /><br />I just unearthed two old volumes of Amy Lowell that I had rescued years ago from a school library cull in the 1990's. I had never opened them. When I did this weekend I was astonished at some of the beauty of the language. "Men, Women and Ghosts" (1916) and "Pictures of the Floating World" (1919). <br /><br />Am definitely going to have to post some of the poems. "September 1918 is right near the end of "Floating World' between "Camouflaged Troop-Ship- Boston Harbor" and "The Night Before the Parade, April 25th 1919". <br /><br />In the preface Lowell explains that the poems are written in a "quasi-Oriental idiom". She comments on the paradox: "The march of peoples is always toward the West, wherefore, the earth being round, in time the West must be East again."<br />- JosieJosie Holfordhttp://www.josieholford.com/noreply@blogger.com