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12/2/2019 4 Comments

A Poet Praised

In response to a question at a recent reading about admired poets, I mentioned the poet William Bronk.  I first heard the name many years ago in a conference with my teacher Laurence Perrine, author of the widely used text Sound and Sense.   He found Bronk's work exceptional as did the acclaimed poet Peter Kane Dufault whom I met much later.  The poems have a remarkable music, their abstractions resonant.  One absorbs an insight.  In his poem "Frailty" (from Living Instead, 1991), treating our desire for "mastery," he concludes: "Yet the frail world goes on/ unmastered, unmastering, and so do we./  Better to love us both the way we are."
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Margaret
1/13/2020 10:18:38 am

This is a wonderful poem. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.

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Joan Fla
2/17/2020 09:13:30 pm

Were we just agreeing with the masters that the key and kernel is LOVE!

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Doris Wyatt link
4/27/2020 03:13:23 pm

Recently read that Einstein had sent his daughter a letter, saying that his famous formula should be Love.
He said that he was never able to express his feelings for her directly and she should open his letter after
he was gone. Why is mankind fearful of "love."

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Doris Wyatt link
4/27/2020 03:08:56 pm

Bronk is a new poet to me, but his stress on fraility recognizing a trait that I have heard mentioned lately.
I have difficulty accepting fraility. I see that word as a "not me" word. I hope to recover my strength each
time I am ill. It requires a lot of effort. At 84, I can't seem to always be strong though the current pains.

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    Neva Herrington

    Neva Herrington is a poet and former educator. She is currently working on a new book of poetry, a collection of short stories, and her memoir. Her inspiration comes from her own experience and the work of other poets.

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