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Easter 2010 – Emily Dickinson Reports On The Workings Of Personal Grief
I measure every Grief I meet by Emily Dickinson I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing, Eyes – I wonder if It weighs like Mine – Or has an Easier size. I wonder if They bore it long – Or did...
View ArticleTwo Charles Bukowski Poems On Losing Jane
I’ve spent far too long in an attempt to explain why these Bukowski poems written about the anguish, anger, and sadness he suffered because of the death of his lover are the only possible content I can...
View ArticleBilly Collins On The Incongruent Expressions Of Love Between Parent And Child
The parent-child relationship has proved particularly hazardous in my family lately. Consequently, Billy Collins’s wry, inspired exposition on the the asymmetrically reciprocated love between parent...
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Leonard Cohen And Billy Collins On Comparisons
Leonard Cohen and Billy Collins The Cohen – Collins Comparisons Comparison Posting “Lanyard” by Billy Collins last week1 led me to realize that both Collins and Leonard Cohen had composed works, a...
View ArticleLeonard Cohen’s Poem & My Mother
Spending time with my mother and continuing to deal with the responsibilities of my own two sons has brought to mind this poem by Leonard Cohen: My Mother Asleep By Leonard Cohen remembering my mother...
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Leonard Cohen Writes, Performs First Song
“Twelve O’Clock Chant” By Leonard Cohen – Written 1951, Sung On TV 1965 The process by which Leonard Cohen wrote his first song is described in this excerpt from Ira Nadel’s “Various Positions – A...
View ArticleApplying Christopher Hitchen’s Description Of W.H. Auden To Leonard Cohen
Do Both Auden and Cohen Summon Despair & Simultaneously Inspire Resistance To Fatalism ? In reading Arguably, a collection of essays by Christopher Hitchens, I came across, in “She’s No...
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An Halloween Poem to Delight My Younger Friends – The First Published Work By...
CIV/n #4 - The literary magazine that first published Leonard Cohen An Halloween Poem to Delight My Younger Friends by Leonard Norman Cohen (Ou sont les jeunes?)1 Impassive frogs, skins stretched taut,...
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New & Improved Posts Featuring Leonard Cohen, A.E. Housman, And Joni Mitchell
In addition to creating new Heck Of A Guy entries, I spend a considerable amount of time and effort updating and revising already published posts. Most often, this involves routine tasks, such as...
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They Eat Roses, Don’t They? Roses, Vegetarians, Poetics, Leonard Cohen, &...
In the beginning was the tweet. Well, at least that’s how today’s post, a dandy representative of the continuous clicking Cohen concatenation category, began. In making my daily internet rounds in...
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