Robert Creeley: One Day (A Poetry Comic by Nora Sawyer)
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Robert Creeley: One Day (A Poetry Comic), from Nora Sawyer, 31 March 2013 ("All of these photos are from my morning ferry ride to work" -- N.S.)
R.C.: One Day, from Thirty Things, 1974
Bob wrote this lovely little poem when we were neighbors in a small coastal town just over the hill from where Nora took these pictures and made this wonderful poetry comic. The days sometimes don't seem to make sense -- this grey, drippy one one for example... until just now. And then, click. Perfect.
I came across it a while back Nora when listening to a lecture by RC I thought that it might be apposite I was very touched by RC's very emotional reading of Whitman I love that about him His willingness to show his feelings
Bob wrote this lovely little poem when we were neighbors in a small coastal town just over the hill from where Nora took these pictures and made this wonderful poetry comic. The days sometimes don't seem to make sense -- this grey, drippy one one for example... until just now. And then, click. Perfect.
ReplyDeleteSaved the day!
Ferries Robert Creeley + some Whitman
ReplyDeletehttp://blogs.cofc.edu/whitman/files/2010/09/Creeley-reading-Whitman.mp3
Tom,
ReplyDeleteYes, on a soggy Monday, "One day after another . . . They all fit." --
4.1
light coming into fog against invisible
ridge, song sparrow calling from branch
in foreground, wave sounding in channel
line for line, line at left
given darker hatching
opens itself, more luminous
than not, in the open
grey rain cloud against shadowed ridge,
lines of waves breaking across channel
Grey and drippy indeed.
ReplyDeletegrey rain cloud against shadowed ridge,
ReplyDeletelines of waves breaking across channel
(The blue view from the good ferry!)
my apologies find the above reading here
ReplyDeletehttp://blogs.cofc.edu/whitman/2010/09/01/whitmans-words-robert-creeley-reading-crossing-brooklyn-ferry/
Sorry to say it is sunny here with a brisking breeze
ReplyDeleteDalriada, that's fantastic. Thank you for the link!
ReplyDeleteI came across it a while back Nora when listening to a lecture by RC I thought that it might be apposite I was very touched by RC's very emotional reading of Whitman
ReplyDeleteI love that about him His willingness to show his feelings
And there's such a breadth of feeling. The show's always worth the going.
ReplyDeleteYou've framed the days perfectly, Nora. They all fit too.
RC fits all, all fits, indeed.
ReplyDeleteChuck, I wonder if you happen to have seen Ann and Ken Mikkolowski's 1972 Alternative Press postcard upon which this poem first saw the light?
ReplyDeleteA classic bit of publishing, poem and available space, a perfect fit.