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10 Contemporary Pastoral Poems - JSTOR Daily

Poems that reflect and reinterpret the pastoral tradition, by Louise Glück, Alex Dimitrov, Rebecca Lehmann, Sam Sax, Natasha Trethewey, and

Here’s a little pastoral break for your feed! 🌿 JSTOR Daily pulled together ten contemporary poems that play with (and challenge) the pastoral tradition.

Writers include Louise Glück, Alex Dimitrov, Barbara Guest, Rebecca Lehmann, Catherine Pierce, Debora Kuan, Sam Sax, Arielle Greenberg, James Tate, and Natasha Trethewey.

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happy Easter, here’s maybe the best poem ever written

“Goodtime Jesus” by James Tate

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we aim to please - james tate (from memoirs of the hawk)

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SVVENIR :: with Amanita & Minou Oram

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“[Words] are a bridge that, paradoxically, breaks isolation and loneliness without eradicating it. It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: “Oh, somebody else is lonely, too!”

It is the most fragile relationship in the world. Colette calls a poem “that secret, that dried rose, that scar, that sin.”

James Tate uses as an epigraph for one of his books a line by James Salter: “Here then, faintly discolored and liable to come apart if you touch it, is the corsage that I kept from the dance.”

In Hindu poetics, “a poem is recognised as such by those who have a heart.” If you do not have a heart, you cannot recognize a poem.

The heart is a small closed space, a symbol or souvenir of the inner life, the secret life, the silent life. It is liable to come apart if you touch it.” — Mary Ruefle, from “On Secrets,” in Madness, Rack, and Honey

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stray animals by James Tate