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This is a picture I took of Louise Glück receiving her Nobel medal in her backyard during Covid. It was such a great moment for lyric poetry--restrained yet emotional--being elevated to the world stage. I took the picture from her back porch.
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This is something Louise Glück told me. It hung over my desk for a decade. A credo for us all.
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Louise Gluck was so chic. Here she is in her mid 70s. There is something classical or archaic about her art. It feels essential to me, like air or food. She was a liberator.
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If Walcott, Heaney, and Brodsky appeared on the cover of The New York Times when they won the Nobel Prize in Literature, I don't understand why Louise Glück's announcement appeared on page 21.
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Laying out all my poems from the past four years to see if I might have a book. At 67, I wonder how many more books there might be. Keeping going is all that really matters, and feeding the lake.
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"death cannot harm me
more than you have harmed me,
my beloved life."
--Louise Glück
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Here is French poet and translator Claire Malroux at 98 showing me her Chevalier certificate (it was rolled up in a tube in the closet!) presented for her service to the art of translation. She has translated all of Dickinson and Stevens into French. She is a marvelous poet, too.
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I love this old picture from graduate school in Wisconsin. I am changing the flat tire on my Camaro as my friend Ken in his bathrobe contemplates life.
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Here is a fox at Race Point, in Provincetown. He/she is contemplative.
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This marvelous tree has been speaking to me all day. Thank God for the trees of the Earth.
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At the end of Covid, Louise Glück came to visit my students at Claremont McKenna College.
We made a fun road trip together from SF. Here are pix of her at CMC, waiting w/ her bags, and the pretty necklace she often wore. Her visit seemed to mark the end of darkness.
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If Don DeLillo had won the Nobel Prize in Literature, I wonder if it would have appeared on page 21 of The New York Times.
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The sonnet by Donald Hall--found among his papers after he was gone--really kills me. From the impressive Winter issue of
@parisreview
@EmilyNemens
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Sylvia Plath's girl scout uniform with merit badges for writing, book finding, foot traveling, reading, scribing, starfinding, camp craft and a lot more.
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This is French poet Claire Malroux at 97 in Paris today reading a new poem to her visitor.
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This was my 68th birthday present to myself. A magnificent book by a beautiful man.
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Last April, when she turned 90, I visited Helen Vendler in Laguna Niguel and took this picture. A reader/critic like her only comes along a few times in a century. But it was her loving friendship that changed my life.
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I recommend this wonderful wonderful essay.
Louise Glück
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Here are two great American poets, Frank Bidart and Elizabeth Bishop, on a Maine ferry.
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Elizabeth Bishop's "A Cold Spring" carved in a bench by artist Jenny Holzer and installed at Vassar.
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Happy birthday, dear friend.
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"No, you inherited a fortune. We elected a mess."
--Stephen Colbert
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Here's another pic of the poet and translator Claire Malroux, at 98, out for lunch at a Paris bistro. Claire has translated Dickinson, Stevens, Bishop and many others with a magnificence that elevates the art of translation, which is of course a heroic labor of love.
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Here are some sweet pictures of Louise Glück getting a little love from
@BarackObama
, who is a friend to poetry. Miss him so much.
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Do you think this might work for an author photo? I am not sure. Maybe I am too old for an author photo?
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"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."
--Albert Camus
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Here is a non Pulitzer finalist at Rilke's apt in Munich. Keeping going is what it's all about.
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In this dark, conservative time, I have published a collection of poetry today. There are poems of the earth, eros, and dust. Thank you for following me. If you are not a follower, I hope one day to convert you ...
@fsgbooks
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At dawn this morning I found my 10th book, "Blizzard" on the door step. I hope a few of you will take a look.
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This picture of Strand, Brodsky, Zagajewski and Walcott really breaks my heart. Three of them were my teachers ...
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This picture of Louise Glück turned up on my phone. She had a wonderful sense of humor. We are at her then favorite restaurant in Gloucester.
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This is a picture from my last visit w/ my beloved teacher Mark Strand, a beautiful poet. He wanted to taste all the pastries because he knew he was dying, so that is what we did, Mark, Binnie, Peg, Honor, Bob, and me.
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“Nobody’s heart is really good for much until it has been smashed to little bits.” --Elizabeth Bishop (in a letter)
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This beautiful image was made by the artist Jenny Holzer using some lines from a poem of mine projected onto the Rockefeller Center. I really like how the words seem to belong to the universe.
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Here's a picture I took forty years ago of Robert Bly with Galway Kinnell at a Greek restaurant, Malfeta's, in midtown Manhattan.
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Happy 88th birthday to the critic Helen Vendler, loving friend of poets and poetry.
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I found this sweet picture w/ Seamus Heaney. My eyes are closed because of happiness.
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Thank you
@potus
for honoring so many writers at the White House, including Louise Gluck and
@JoyceCarolOates
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Pink camellias in soft rain on the Blvd du Monparnasse in Paris.
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Since human touch is gone, I hope there will always be flower touch ...
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This is poet and translator Marilyn Hacker in the Marais awaiting her delicious canard and wine.
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Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
--Buddha
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This polaroid pic of the poet Lucie Brock-Broido and me was taken on the last day of classes at Columbia in 1996. I was a contract teacher commuting from Boston. Lucie and I were classmates at Columbia long before this. I miss her so much. Do you remember polaroids?
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I took this picture of the French poet Claire Malroux today. She is 96 and likes a brioche with her tea. She is a beautiful poet, translator and friend.
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Today I paid a Christmas visit to James Merrill. Soon it will be his centennial.
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This is the house I grew up in. My parents raised 5 children there. There was no garage then, just a carport. I don't remember the tall trees. It really seemed like a palace.
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The paperback of my selected sonnets has arrived. I hope you will consider ordering a copy. Thank you, friends.
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My annual baptismal swim across Eagle Lake. Water like a silk kimono. The god of nature surrounding me.
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It's such a relief to be a flower-loving homo instead of a Proud Boy.
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When I woke up this morning, there was a stainless steel monolith at the foot of my bed.
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Lucie Brock-Broido and Seamus Heaney with lilacs in Cambridge.
Love,
HC
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I visited Lucie in the rain today. I love the angel who looks after her.
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I don't know where this picture of Elizabeth Bishop comes from, but I adore it.
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May all the brutality Trump has brought into our lives and into America be defeated by art, and the art of language, and empathy.
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How you worship does make a difference if it takes away the rights of others.
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Congratulations to Joyce Carol Oates for winning the LA Times Book Award for her important novel "A Book of American Martyrs"
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Hydrangeas and roses living and growing together like prose writers and poets.
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"Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see."
--Magritte
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Two of my former students--Christian Gullette & Richie Hofmann--who became magnificent poets. Look for their important books.
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For this mother's day, here are some gorgeous tulips from the garden of the poet Louise Glück.
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I miss my swims in the Adirondacks. They gave me more confidence to face the world. The motor boats were scary but so is life, sometimes. The lake water was like wearing a silk kimono.
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Here is French poet and translator Claire Malroux at 96 working at her desk (and wearing agnès b).
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Here is the announcement of Louise Glück's wonderful Nobel Prize in Literature on page 21 of the Times. The Russian, Irish and Caribbean laureates get front page coverage, but not the American. Remember poetry says it best.
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Thank you to artist Jenny Holzer for projecting my poem "Necessary and Impossible" onto the facade of the Guggenheim Museum tonight. Poetry says it best!
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I took this picture of Mt. Baldy from my office at school today to remember and honor my friend Julian Sands.
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Really missing Hillary and her white pantsuits,
the color of suffragettes.
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There's a Christmas tree in a window across the rooftops which is my current favorite object of meditation.
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Here's a picture of me as a young man with my teacher Stanley Kunitz, who was feared and revered. He taught me a lot and told me long after that he knew he'd been hard on me.
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Here is a picture of Jean Valentine at the Stark Cemetery in New Hampshire where we visited Robert Lowell.
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