Jan 2, 10:29 p.m.: “beautiful lofty things” — the title of a poem by Yeats. “Everyone's tired of my uproar” — cf. Robert Lowell, “everyone is tired of my turmoil.”
Jan 4, 12:12 a.m.: “don't know when I'll be back again” — Peter, Paul and Mary, “Leaving on a Jet Plane.”
Jan 5, [...]
(This is off the top of my head, so feel free to add anything I've forgotten)
John Balaban, Words for my Daughter
Kim Addonizio, The Philosopher's Club
Li-Young Lee, Rose
Rebel Angels, ed. Mark Jarman and Dave Mason (anthology)
New American Poets of the 90s (anthology)
Amiri Baraka, Transbluesency
Tony Hoagland, Donkey Gospel
Maurya Simon, Speaking in Tongues
Derek Walcott, Omeros
Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Islands
Philip [...]
December 15, 5:54 p.m.: “Everything I've written seems like straw” — St. Thomas Aquinas.
December 16, 5:31 a.m.: “That is why I am clumsy, for lack of love” — from the movie Wings of Desire. “To Carthage then I came …” — St. Augustine, Confessions (rather famously quoted in “The Wasteland”). “The [...]