(b. 1941– )
U.S. poet“…and because the light will enlarge your days, your dreams at night will be as strange as the jars of octopus you saw once in a fisherman’s boat under the summer moon…”
more infosource: “Late Spring,” in A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (New York: Harcourt Bracy & Company), 27.
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category: dream, fisherman, light, moon, summer
medium: poetry
notes: from Mary Karr's Twitter feed
“But I remember so much, the way her hands dismantled bread, the thing her father said that hurt her, what she dreamed.”
more infosource: “Meditation at Lagunitas,” in The Columbia Anthology of American Poetry (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995), 715.
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category: love, memory, observation
medium: poetry
notes: quoted by Mary Karr in her Twitter feed
Robert Hass