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Hi Mathew,
Help me out here: what is the line you borrowed?
Happy VN birthday.
Fran
On April 22, 2018, at 12:16, "Roth, Matthew" <mroth@MESSIAH.EDU> wrote:
For VN’s birthday this year, I thought I would try a new poetic form created by Terrance Hayes called a shovel poem. The idea is to take a line from another poet’s poem and use each word as successive end words to each line of a new poem, so you can read the original line by reading down the right margin. My poem borrows a line from John Shade which, alas, might be more appropriate to a death day poem.
Nabokov Dying
By lamplight of a febrile dream, I
Saw the house in Ithaca where we lived
In fifty-seven. We sat out on
The unmown lawn at night. Moths flew
Between white moons of dandelions. And on
Your blouse you pinned a firefly and in
Your hair a dark Vanessa closed the
Book of its wings. Darling, your eyes reflected
For an instant my face, then nothing, nothing but sky.
Matt Roth
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Help me out here: what is the line you borrowed?
Happy VN birthday.
Fran
On April 22, 2018, at 12:16, "Roth, Matthew" <mroth@MESSIAH.EDU> wrote:
For VN’s birthday this year, I thought I would try a new poetic form created by Terrance Hayes called a shovel poem. The idea is to take a line from another poet’s poem and use each word as successive end words to each line of a new poem, so you can read the original line by reading down the right margin. My poem borrows a line from John Shade which, alas, might be more appropriate to a death day poem.
Nabokov Dying
By lamplight of a febrile dream, I
Saw the house in Ithaca where we lived
In fifty-seven. We sat out on
The unmown lawn at night. Moths flew
Between white moons of dandelions. And on
Your blouse you pinned a firefly and in
Your hair a dark Vanessa closed the
Book of its wings. Darling, your eyes reflected
For an instant my face, then nothing, nothing but sky.
Matt Roth
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<http://www.vladimir-nabokov.org/association/chercheurs-enchantes/73> AdaOnline<http://www.ada.auckland.ac.nz/> NSJ <http://vnjapan.org/main/ada/index.html> Ada Annotations<http://vnjapan.org/main/ada/index.html> VN Bibliography Blog<http://vnbiblio.com/>
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