Today's poem is "Moon, Keep Setting Back Clocks"
from Moonbook and Sunbook
Willis Barnstone
, born in Lewiston, Maine, and educated at Bowdoin, the Sorbonne, Columbia and Yale, taught in Greece at the end of the civil war (1949-51), in Buenos Aires during the Dirty War, and in China during Cultural Revolution, where he was later a Fulbright Professor in Beijing (1984-85) Former O’Connor Professor of Greek at Colgate University, he is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Indiana University.
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About Moonbook and Sunbook:
"Willis Barnstone’s new book is a magnetic miracle that draws the solar and lunar magic of his immense learning into the space of marvelous poems. His language joins the mysteries of the sky with the enigmas of the heart in a music unmistakably his own."
April 25, 2004: "Secret Face of Love" "The secret face of love changes her name...."
November 22, 2003: "Dawn Café" "I sleep and already live tomorrow. Must be..."
"Light"
Three poems
Andrei Codrescu
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