Enjoyed your poems and reading. Congrats on the Pulitzer and prize? Or nomination? In any event, a heartwarming congratulations. I, too, am a poet specializing in Japanese forms: haiku, tanka, haibun, kyoka, senryu. I hope you don’t mind me sharing a tanka and my haiku, a tribute poem to Bashō’s frog with commentary by the late AHA founder and poet Jane Reichhold who considered my Basho haiku among her top 10 haiku of all time. What an honor. Here’s the Bashō poem and commentary: Bashō’s frog four hundred years of ripples At first the idea of picking only 10 of my favorite haiku seemed a rather daunting task. How could I review all the haiku I have read in my life and decide that there were only 10 that were outstanding? Then realized I was already getting a steady stream of excellent haiku day by day through the AHA forum. The puns and write-offs based on Basho's most famous haiku are so numerous I would have said that nothing new could be said with this method, but here Al Fogel proved me wrong. Perhaps part of my delight in this haiku lies in the fact that I agree with him. Here he is saying one thing about realism-ripples are on a pond after a frog jumps in, but because it refers back to Basho and his famous haiku, he is also saying something about the haiku and authors who have followed him. We, and our work, are just ripples while Basho holds the honor of inventing the idea of "the sound of a frog leaping is the sound of water". As haiku spreads around the world, making ripples in more and larger ponds, its ripples are wider-including us all. But his last word reminds us all that we are only ripples and our lives are that ephemeral. It will be the frogs that will remain. ~~ And my tanka: returning home from a Jackson Pollock exhibition I smear my face with paint and turn into art ~~ -All love in isolation from Miami Beach, Florida. Al
@christopher91522 жыл бұрын
She was an American heavyweight of poetry, no doubt. Brilliant author.
@fayebradford57632 жыл бұрын
Something about her makes me sad, realizing
@fayebradford57632 жыл бұрын
She's no longer here!
@leilanibarnett86073 жыл бұрын
I have a question. Can anyone tell me the source for Clifton's quotation, "Every pair of eyes has probably seen something you could not have endured"? Many thanks!
@kiralynae69983 жыл бұрын
Judith Harris cites that quote in her book, Signifying Pain. She writes that it's from a conversation Clifton had with clinicians and educators.
@granadahoy47043 жыл бұрын
you are nice poet and you have nice face I hope you are fine I like yours poems and yours book xXxX I m Mustafa from spain
@haithamal-sharjabi92633 жыл бұрын
here for school 👇
@sharonrichamos3 жыл бұрын
I love that Lucille Clifton's poems can elicit laughter and tears.
@joannegabbin41063 жыл бұрын
Aracelis Girmay got it right when she describes Lucille Clifton poetry as "fierce looking"! Joanne Gabbin
@marygillilandpoet3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, producers, speakers, publisher for this tiny bit of Clifton's life, and congratulations BOA on initiating Blessing The Boats Poetry series. In 1991 I directed a 2-week residential writers conference and I so admired her work! Lucille was my guest writer. Her public reading and conference seminar were of great benefit to the community, to participants - and to me. She read my palm and told me, among other things, that 2 children would be coming. Hmmm, I thought: I was getting on and in the midst of making a commitment to writing my own poetry. I also had just gone full-time at Cornell U where I taught her poems far and wide. Ten years after that summer prophecy, I received word that my manuscript was a finalist for the National Poetry Series! etcetera; 25 years later an encounter at Port Authority brought 2 Tibetan refugees into my home life - my god daughters! - whom my husband and I saw through Ithaca College all the way to graduation. I've not graduated from Lucille Clifton's affirmation of the 6th sense, though, and her trusting me as a reader in the passing along of her husband Fred's notebook. I will always be grateful for those days in the presence of her poems and her soul. Thank you very much for honoring one of the great 20th century US poets in this way.
@jina_huh3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for making this documentary! I absolutely love Lucille Clifton! 🙋🏻♀️💜🙌🏼📚
@EricWarren3 жыл бұрын
I am reading "How to Carry Water". I really didn't know Clifton very well prior to this, but now I feel like I am getting to know her better. A remarkable person, and poet.
@JustBuffaloLit3 жыл бұрын
So excited!
@kazimali43694 жыл бұрын
LOVE
@anomolouscow37614 жыл бұрын
Wtf I got this as an ad and it scared the shit out of me
@mozz26024 жыл бұрын
This is really like asmr
@joelleweddle57025 жыл бұрын
this is so beautifully tender, thank you for sharing
@rick720358 жыл бұрын
A great writer talks about how a single book can change your life ... the sort of books published by BOA Editions.
@pevensielavere228 жыл бұрын
Really dig this poem and the way Sean reads it. His voice sings it, becomes it... :-) p.s. Loving that COOL, snazzy shirt by the way.
@missHg8011 жыл бұрын
<3
@Letsmakepeace10111 жыл бұрын
Hi good people, can my name be added to the headline so it appears on search engines better. thanks so much.
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Love Kim. Wrote a poem about her.
Fascinating.
Blacks have different feelings about trees- OUCH!
amazing! ♥
Enjoyed your poems and reading. Congrats on the Pulitzer and prize? Or nomination? In any event, a heartwarming congratulations. I, too, am a poet specializing in Japanese forms: haiku, tanka, haibun, kyoka, senryu. I hope you don’t mind me sharing a tanka and my haiku, a tribute poem to Bashō’s frog with commentary by the late AHA founder and poet Jane Reichhold who considered my Basho haiku among her top 10 haiku of all time. What an honor. Here’s the Bashō poem and commentary: Bashō’s frog four hundred years of ripples At first the idea of picking only 10 of my favorite haiku seemed a rather daunting task. How could I review all the haiku I have read in my life and decide that there were only 10 that were outstanding? Then realized I was already getting a steady stream of excellent haiku day by day through the AHA forum. The puns and write-offs based on Basho's most famous haiku are so numerous I would have said that nothing new could be said with this method, but here Al Fogel proved me wrong. Perhaps part of my delight in this haiku lies in the fact that I agree with him. Here he is saying one thing about realism-ripples are on a pond after a frog jumps in, but because it refers back to Basho and his famous haiku, he is also saying something about the haiku and authors who have followed him. We, and our work, are just ripples while Basho holds the honor of inventing the idea of "the sound of a frog leaping is the sound of water". As haiku spreads around the world, making ripples in more and larger ponds, its ripples are wider-including us all. But his last word reminds us all that we are only ripples and our lives are that ephemeral. It will be the frogs that will remain. ~~ And my tanka: returning home from a Jackson Pollock exhibition I smear my face with paint and turn into art ~~ -All love in isolation from Miami Beach, Florida. Al
She was an American heavyweight of poetry, no doubt. Brilliant author.
Something about her makes me sad, realizing
She's no longer here!
I have a question. Can anyone tell me the source for Clifton's quotation, "Every pair of eyes has probably seen something you could not have endured"? Many thanks!
Judith Harris cites that quote in her book, Signifying Pain. She writes that it's from a conversation Clifton had with clinicians and educators.
you are nice poet and you have nice face I hope you are fine I like yours poems and yours book xXxX I m Mustafa from spain
here for school 👇
I love that Lucille Clifton's poems can elicit laughter and tears.
Aracelis Girmay got it right when she describes Lucille Clifton poetry as "fierce looking"! Joanne Gabbin
Thank you, producers, speakers, publisher for this tiny bit of Clifton's life, and congratulations BOA on initiating Blessing The Boats Poetry series. In 1991 I directed a 2-week residential writers conference and I so admired her work! Lucille was my guest writer. Her public reading and conference seminar were of great benefit to the community, to participants - and to me. She read my palm and told me, among other things, that 2 children would be coming. Hmmm, I thought: I was getting on and in the midst of making a commitment to writing my own poetry. I also had just gone full-time at Cornell U where I taught her poems far and wide. Ten years after that summer prophecy, I received word that my manuscript was a finalist for the National Poetry Series! etcetera; 25 years later an encounter at Port Authority brought 2 Tibetan refugees into my home life - my god daughters! - whom my husband and I saw through Ithaca College all the way to graduation. I've not graduated from Lucille Clifton's affirmation of the 6th sense, though, and her trusting me as a reader in the passing along of her husband Fred's notebook. I will always be grateful for those days in the presence of her poems and her soul. Thank you very much for honoring one of the great 20th century US poets in this way.
Thank you for making this documentary! I absolutely love Lucille Clifton! 🙋🏻♀️💜🙌🏼📚
I am reading "How to Carry Water". I really didn't know Clifton very well prior to this, but now I feel like I am getting to know her better. A remarkable person, and poet.
So excited!
LOVE
Wtf I got this as an ad and it scared the shit out of me
This is really like asmr
this is so beautifully tender, thank you for sharing
A great writer talks about how a single book can change your life ... the sort of books published by BOA Editions.
Really dig this poem and the way Sean reads it. His voice sings it, becomes it... :-) p.s. Loving that COOL, snazzy shirt by the way.
<3
Hi good people, can my name be added to the headline so it appears on search engines better. thanks so much.