I knew you'd like the poem and find kinship with Clampitt, especially since you share the painterly concern!
V. On 11/29/05, jane bhandari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ah, lovely, especially the second poem. I love '...the aloof skin tones / Of > a Crivelli angel....' , so muted and austere. It gives me hope, she started > so much later than I did. > > Jane > > > Vivek Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the metro to work, I've been reading Amy Clampitt's second > collection, What the Light Was Like. Clampitt was an intense poet who > published five collections, her first one at the age of 63 ( > http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/44 ) Tasty, very > tasty, but not > afraid to be cerebral, not at all. Shades of Marianne Moore. I type > below two poems from that collection. > > (About linebreaks, btw: I have a friend who has a nice trick. He > keeps a paper below each line as he reads a poem, so he can see the > line by itself and try to guess how the next one will turn. It's a > good way to learn the integrity of the line, to see the strength of a > line by itself, and I've adopted the practice myself. It works > remarkably with Clampitt's poems-- of course you'd have to print out > the poem first...) > > WITNESS > > An ordinary evening in Wisconsin > seen from a Greyhound bus--mute aisles > of merchandise the sole inhabitants > of the half-darkened Five and Ten, > > the tables of the single lit cafe awash > with unarticulated pathos, the surface membrane > of the inadvertently transparent instant > when no one is looking: outside town > > the barns, their red gone dark with sundown, > withhold the shudder of a warped terrain-- > the castle rocks above, tree-clogged ravines > already submarine with nightfall, flocks > > (like dark sheep) of toehold junipers, > the lucent arms of birches : purity > without a mirror, other than a mind bound > elsewhere, to tell how it looks. > > > A BAROQUE SUNBURST > > struck through such a dome > as might await a groaning Michelangelo, > finding only alders and barnacles > and herring gulls at their usual squabbles, > sheds on the cove's voluted > silver the aloof skin tones > of a Crivelli angel: a region, > a weather and a point of view > as yet unsettled, save for the lighthouse > like a Venetian campanile, from whose nightlong > reflected angelus you might suppose > the coast of Maine had Europe > on the brain or in its bones, as though > it were a kind of sickness. > > ________________________________ > To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! > Security Centre. > > -- > You are encouraged to post poetry, respond critically to the poems > circulated and participate in discussions. 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