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My Favorite Poets

• A power point adventure
• December 2005
• TED-INMD 410
• Marc A. Nelson

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Sonnet XVII (100 Love Sonnets, 1960)
I don't love you as if you were the salt-rose,
topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate
fire I love you as certain dark things are
loved, secretly, between the shadow and the
soul. I love you as the plant that doesn't bloom
and carries hidden within itself the light of
those flowers, and thanks to your love, darkly
in my body lives the dense fragrance that rises
from the earth. I love you without knowing how,
or when, or from where, I love you simply,
without problems or pride I love you in this
way because I don't know any other way of loving
but this, in which there is no I or you, so
intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand,
so intimate that when I fall asleep it is your
eyes that close

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Pablo Neruda

• Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto in Parral, Chile
  on July 12, 1904
• His Father disapproved of his poetry and he
  adopted the pseudonym Pablo Neruda in 1946
• Won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971
• Died in 1973
• New Interest in the old master with the release
  of Il Postino
• Oh yes, he liked the ladies

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James Wright

• Born in Martins Ferry, Ohio on December 13. 1927
• Nervous Breakdown in High School
• Won Pulitzer Prize for Literature 1971
• Died of throat cancer March 25, 1980
• James Wright was concerned with places and the
  people in them

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Trying to Pray

• This time, I have left my body behind me, crying
• In its dark thorns.
• Still,
• There are good things in this world.
• It is dusk. It is the good darkness
• Of Womens hands that touch loaves.
• The spirit of a tree begins to move.
• I touch leaves.
• I close my eyes and think of water.
• Modern American Poetry

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Major Embarrassments About Poetry Can Be Attended
To With A Baseball-bat!
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One of My Own

• The Shortest Poem I Ever Wrote is Shorter Than
  Its Title
• Peace pleas, please.

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The End

• Thank you

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