Tag Archives: Gerard Manley Hopkins

Windfucker: Say It Loud, Say It Proud

Posted on October 12, 2011 by admin

Poetry wasn’t part of my married years. Not until later did I begin reading it regularly. But I do remember one idle evening in our East 47th Street apartment, lounging around on our stylish gray couch with black and white … Continue reading →

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God, Lynn Domina, and Gerard Manley Hopkins

Posted on August 24, 2011 by admin

My late friend and poetry mentor, Saul Bennett, though deeply immersed in his Jewish heritage that began with his boyhood in Sunnyside, Queens during World War Two, loved no poet as much as Gerard Manley Hopkins, the little Jesuit priest … Continue reading →

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In Praise of Overwriting (If you’re Gerard Manley Hopkins)

Posted on August 23, 2011 by admin

(The Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins died age forty five in 1889, leaving behind poems that weren’t published for another thirty years, when his efforts to reinvigorate poetry that had been trapped in Victorian decorum and predictable traditional meters were … Continue reading →

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Saul’s Gifts, Part Two

Posted on July 27, 2011 by admin

(The July/August 2011 issue of The Country and Abroad has published my earlier reminiscence about my late friend and mentor, Saul Bennett. There’s one more piece to the story…) Saul’s Gift, Part Two I dreamed I stood outside my death … Continue reading →

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