A celebration is going on in regards to Allen Ginsberg’s poem Howl finally not being labeled “obscene.” For many years, in the 1950s and onward, Howl was considered obscene not for an overload of cursing but because it criticized much of contemporary American culture at the time. (more…)
This is the poem for today, Friday:
Their Beauty Has More Meaning
Yesterday morning enormous the moon hung low on the ocean,
Round and yellow-rose in the glow of dawn;
The night-herons flapping home wore dawn on their wings. Today
Black is the ocean, black and sulphur the sky,
And white seas leap. I honestly do not know which day is more beautiful.
I know that tomorrow or next year or in twenty years
I shall not see these things- and it does not matter, it does not hurt;
They will be here. And when the whole human race
Has been like me rubbed out, they will still be here: storms, moon and ocean,
Dawn and the birds. And I say this: their beauty has more meaning
Than the whole human race and the race of birds.
Copyright by Robinson Jeffers
More of his stuff can be found here.
Please check out the interview with neglected poet James Emanuel. He’s what I call “The Most Neglected Poet of the 20th Century.”
He has some great insights to share…
Also, a book review will be up later on.
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