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. Lisel Mueller I came to this country from Germany at the age of fifteen.... Carl Sandburg, my first American poet.... Here were poems I could understand, written in free verse, in plain, idiomatic American English. They were straightforward and, at the same time, quirky and mysterious. Their spirit was democratic and deeply humane, the same spirit that I recognized later in two other Midwester..

. 덴버대 매거진에서. 여기서는 대체로 어디서든 조금 높은 곳에서는 주로 숲이 보이고 그 속에 감춰져 주택들은 잘 안 보인다. "Bright Scythe: Selected Poems by Tomas Tranströmer" (2015) "The American Crisis: What Went Wrong. How we Recover.By the Writers of The Atlantic" (2020) 어느 집의 '크리스마스 트리' '놀이' 집, 어느 집 뒤뜰에.

. Jane Miller : "Song of Amargo's Mother" frightened me terribly, for it presented a familiar world of numbers and lemonade, but it was a sad song, and violent. Someone was dead, and his mother didn't want anyone to weep. I knew nothing about Spanish Catholics, but I knew the moon, where he apparently now lived, and dreaded the twenty-seventh of August for years. ★ Song of Amargo's MotherBy Fed..

. Louise Glück의 시집 "Winter Recipes From The Collective" (2021)에서 시 "Autumn"과 "Poem" 두 편을 여기 적어 둔다. 둘 다 첫 연만 읽고 말아도 좋다. "First Loves" (C. Ciuraru 편집)에 시인 Kenneth Koch가 열다섯 살 때 Shelley의 시를 읽은 경험에 대해 쓴 부분이 생각나서 다시 읽어본다. "I was more startled and charmed by single lines, or sometimes by a few lines at a time, than by whole poems. Shelly's whole poems somewhat alarmed me. The further I got into t..

. 2025년 1월 17일 자 작가 연감을 읽는다*:205년 전 이날 태어난 앤 브론테는스물아홉에 폐결핵으로 세상을 떠났다.오빠와 언니 에밀리가 같은 병으로돌아간 지 한 해가 안 되어서다. 내가 폐결핵 걸린 게 드러난 건스물일곱이던 1972년 여름유학 자격 신체검사에서였다.한 해 통원치료로 완쾌됐다스트렙토마이신이 나를 살렸다. 나는 스트렙토마이신이 발견된다음다음 해에, 그리고 앤은그보다 123년 전에 태어났다수많은 기도에도 불구하고나기도 때문이라고, 목사는 그러려나. * Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë Within the next year, three of the four Brontë siblings — Emily, Anne, and their brother Branwe..

. Seamus Heaney [ 아래는 작년 가을 "사진 일기"에 "First Loves" 책 표지 사진을 올리며 덧븥였던 거다. ] "The first poems I heard were short, and i didn't even think of them as poems. They were bits of blow-in in the daily talk, like leaves in a gust, alive and familiar and a delight -- but no big deal"로 시작되는 Seamus Heaney에는 그가 어렸을 적 들은 couplets(2행 연구) 넷이 나오는데 그중 셋을 또 읽어본다. 매력적이다 (왠지 Edgar Lee Master의 시집 "Spoon River Anthol..

. Barbara Guest When i was young my mother, who was no way professed to be literary, was much attached to poetry.... She had a good memory and was fond of quoting poetry. Some days, all days, I would hear her recite poems that I now know were from The Oxford Book of English Verse -- I have a copy on my self. She liked Tennyson, and I can still hear the line "The splendour falls on castle walls a..

. Edward Hirsch I was initiated into poetry trance on a rainy Saturday afternoon in mid October ... when I wandered down to the basement of our house to pick through some of my grandfather's forgotten books. i was eight years old .... I opened a musty anthology of poetry to a section called "Night" and read a poem that immediately arrested me.... I read it straight through, and its simple increm..

. Carmela Ciuraru ("First Loves" Introduction에서): [In college I was transfixed by Elizabeth Bishop's villanelle "One Art."] Soon afterward I discovered the poems of Anna Akhmatova, in an edition translated by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward. My favorite, "We don't know how to say goodbye." begins: We don't know how to say goodbye: We wander on, shoulder to shoulder. ..

. "First Loves: Poets Introduce the Essential PoemsThat Captivated and Inspired Them" (2000)Edited by Carmela Ciuraru 예순여덟 시인들이 자신의 첫사랑(이었던) 시에 대해 말해준다. 생각나면 한두 시인을 읽어보곤 했는데, 이번엔 다 읽어볼 생각이다. 어떤 시인은 여기 인용하게 될 것 같다. 우선, Louise Glück, 2020 노벨문학상 수상 시인. 아래 인용한 두 구절은 -- 다음 포스트에 인용하는, Glück에 대한 편집자 Ciurau의 언급과 함께 -- 내가 그녀의 시 스타일에 처음부터 끌렸던 이유를 잘 설명해 주기도 한다. 그녀의 책, 2000년엔가 주문해서 사서 채 다 읽지도 못했는데 한국에서 이리로..