I was originally thinking I should wrap up my self-indulgent Nuala-fest with a translation of my own . . . and then I found a translation that made mine look inelegant and wordy, so I figured I’d leave it to Paul Muldoon, whom I love.  Thankfully, you can get to the original Irish and the […]

I wanted to write at least one more post about Nuala (I feel disrespectful calling her that, but it’s just so much easier to type) before we move on to something completely different. But I feel like we haven’t really given her much of a fair shake yet, though I suspect, this blog is just […]

Originally posted by Rachel   Oprah’s about to pick a new book for her bookclub on 1/16. It’s published by FSG, it retails for $9.00 and it’s said to be 144 pages. Could it be? Could Oprah be bringing poetry to the masses? Edit: Okay, after some time on the FSG website, I think I […]

The holidays and their attendent madness kept us all away from Nuala for a bit, but I meant to talk about Aubade, and now I have to talk about it.  Some jerk ran into my husband’s car last week.  He’ll be ok, and this poem will rattle about in my brain-pan for a while.  I […]

I should respond with my own disclaimer: I should feel bad for wrapping you up in this book, because it is such a giant mememememe my turn ME! treat to trick people into reading it, because I love talking about it so much.  Selfish Lanea.  Poetry Crazy Lanea.  So, sorry in advance, but thank you […]

Okay, big disclaimer here. I realized as I wrote this that there was no way I had the time to write the 20+ pages that I would need to write to really discuss this work.  So basically, this is an effort to dip my toe in the discussion. As we go, I will post more, […]

I figured I should provide a bit of background on the poet I’ve chosen, since her work is only recently receiving attention in Lit departments in North America. Ní Dhomhnaill is multi-lingual, but writes poetry exclusively in Irish. She then divvies her work up among some of the finest poets in Ireland for translation into […]

Welcome to eating poetry, a place to read and discuss poetry with others who embrace verse that’s worth reading.  We’re not looking at doggerel, we’re not looking at Freshman lit texts, we’re looking at the good stuff.  It won’t all be pretty, and it won’t all be easy. We’ll cover a new volume of poetry […]

Some things are lovely: And some things are charming: And some things are downright quizzical Until you figure out how to look at them and how they need changing. I felted the first knitting machine created swatch, and I fell in love with it.  It makes me think of this chunk of Patrick Kavanagh poetry: […]