Monday, January 20, 2003

Leda, After The Swan Comments

Rating: 5.0

Perhaps,
in the exaggerated grace
of his weight
settling,
...
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Carl Phillips
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Allen Hagar 08 March 2019

Excellent. Evocative of Yeats as a man & the Swan as a God. Zeus. The happening quickly rings so often. The molt of feathers suggesting self-awareness for the young reader, a position of truth & assessment honest for the one aware of his & her history. Black & white as the raven is blue too. Yes, so true, so very accurate, acute (not cute) but an acute eye & especially the ear. Van Gogh. Sunflowers. No Fear. ABH-TJr.

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David Gerardino 25 December 2005

GREAT POEM, did you put out a book of poems called, THE REST OF LOVE?

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