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Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New and Selected Poems

by John Balaban

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Jun 02, 2012 06:44PM

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The End of Beauty

by Jorie Graham

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May 25, 2012 09:30AM

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The Raving Fortune

by Noelle Kocot

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Eric L said: " Still only on my second read- but kinda wanna make out with its imagination.I have a thing for the immeasurables. -Smashing- "

May 22, 2012 07:53PM · see review

Eric’s Quotes

“Come on. I don't have any problem violating my own insights in practice.”
― Slavoj Žižek

tags: insights, practise-vs-preach

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“I can talk for a long time only when it's about something boring.”
― Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

tags: boring, communication, humor, talking

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“I demand unconditional love and complete freedom. That is why I am terrible.”
― Tomaz Salamun

tags: unconditional-love

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“Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like.”
― Emile Zola, Germinal

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“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: earth, poems-of-blood-and-passion, spring

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¡ POETRY ! — 22521 members — last activity May 24, 2026 04:09PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more