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Hayden Carruth Poems
- On Being Asked To Write A Poem...
- I, I, I First, the self. Then, the observing self. The self ...
- Scrambled Eggs And Whiskey Scrambled eggs and whiskey in the...
- Saturday At The Border "Form follows function follows form ....
- Ray How many guys are sitting at their kitchen tables ...
- February Morning The old man takes a nap too soon in the ...
- Graves Both of us had been close to Joel, and at Joel's ...
Grew up in Woodbury, Connecticut and was educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the University of Chicago. He lived in Johnson, Vermont for many years. Carruth taught at Syracuse University, in the Graduate Creative Writing Program, where he taught and mentored many younger poets, including Brooks Haxton and Allen Hoey. He resided with his wife, poet Joe-Anne McLaughlin Carruth near the small central New York village of Munnsville. He wrote for over sixty years. Carruth died from complications following a series of strokes. more »
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On Being Asked To Write A Poem Against The War In Vietnam
Well I have and in fact
more than one and I'll
tell you this too
I wrote one against
Algeria that nightmare
and another against
Korea and another
against the one
I was in
and I don't remember
how many against
the three
when I was a boy
Abyssinia Spain and
Harlan County
and not one
breath was restored
to one
shattered throat
mans womans or childs
not one not
one
but death went on and on
never looking aside
except now and then
with a furtive half-smile
to make sure I was noticing.
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