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Strafford Notes, 10 June, 2013
Monday, June 10, 2013 9:12:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Slow monday for poetry....

June 10
Events:
June 10,Portland Mama’s CrowBar, . 189 Congress St. 9-11pm / 21+ / Beer Only & Cash Only No Regrets Tour: Chris Leja & William Stanford Knudsen
Born:
0610
Sir Edwin Arnold (1832 – 24 March 1904) English poet and journalist, who is most known for his work, The Light of Asia.
http://www.bharatadesam.com/spiritual/bhagavadgita_edwin_arnold/bhagavad_gita_edwin_arnold.php
http://www.phx-ult-lodge.org/light_of_asia.htm
Hattie McDaniel (1895 – 10/02/1952) US actor
http://www.mtv.com/movies/person/27363/personmain.jhtml
Immanuel Velikovsky (1895-17 November 1979) Russian writer
http://www.velikovsky.info/Main_Page
Saul Bellow (1915 – 04/05/2005) Canadian /American author, Nobel Prize for Lit 1976
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1976/bellow-bio.html
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/bellow.htm

Christopher Middleton (1926- ) British poet and translator,of German literature.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/christopher-middleton

China Shop Vigil

Useful these bowls may be;
what fatness makes the hollows glow,
their shadows bossed and plump.

Precisely these a wheel whirling backward
flattens them. Knuckles whiten on copper:
headless men are hammering drums

Cup and teapot may be such comforters:
small jaws mincing chatter
over the bad blood between us once.

When baking began, the air in jugs frothed
for milk, or lupins. Now mob is crushed
by mob, what fatness but in wild places,

where some half dozen dusty mindful men
drinking from gourd or canvas huddle,
and can speak at last of the good rain.

http://pippoetry.blogspot.com/2011/07/christopher-middleton.html

Maurice Sendak (1928 – 05/08/2012) American writer and illustrator of children's literature Where the Wild Things Are, 1963.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0784124/
http://www.amazon.com/Maurice-Sendak/e/B000AQ1O5O
Edward O. Wilson (1929 – ) US scientist, writer
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/11/e-o-wilsons-theory-of-everything/308686/
Anderson Bigode Herzer, (1962 – 1982) Brazilian writer and poet
http://zagria.blogspot.com/2010/02/anderson-bigode-herzer-1962-1982-poet.html#.UbWosqbD_dc

Passed:
0610
Dr Alexander Barclay (c. 1476 –1552) English/Scottish poet..& translator
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20179/20179-h/20179-h.htm
Michael Wigglesworth (1631–1705) Puritan minister and poet The Day of Doom
Michael Wigglesworth (1631–1705) was a Puritan minister and poet whose poem The Day of Doom
http://www.puritansermons.com/poetry/wiggindx.htm
Mrs. Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney (September 1, 1791 –1865), American poet
http://www.niagarapoetry.ca/sigourne3.htm
Robert Williams Buchanan (18 August 1841 –1901) Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist.
http://www.robertbuchanan.co.uk/
http://archive.org/stream/northcoastandoth00buchuoft/northcoastandoth00buchuoft_djvu.txt
Dr. Edward Everett Hale (04/03/1822 –1909) US religious leader
http://www.online-literature.com/edward-hale/
Henry Treece (22 Dec. 911-1966) Brit poet and writer [juvenile historical novels.],also a teacher and editor.
The Haunted Garden
In this sad place
Memory hangs on the air
Fragile as Spring snail's tiny shell,
Coming to the sympathetic ear
Gentle as bud's green pulsing in the sun,
Suave as sin in a black velvet glove;

The old faces gaze
Wistfully as birds, among the nodding leaves,
They watch the pleasures they may never share;
And through the twilight hours
Old voices call along the river banks,
And out of the high-walled garden.

Why do they sigh,
The gentle ones in the flowering musk;
And what are the words of the song
The pale stranger sings as he walks
The garden's still, deserted paths,
Like a boy searching for his dog?

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/t/henry-treece/
S.P.Sterner St. Paul Meek (April 8, 1894-1972) US military chemist, early science fiction author, and children's author
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/25130
Louis L'Amour (03/22/1908 –1988) US writer
http://www.louislamour.com/
Ralph Hammond Innes (15 July 1913 –1998) British novelist who wrote over 30 novels, as well as children's and travel books
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hinnes.htm
Ray Charles (09/23/1930 –2004) US R'n'B and jazz great - singer, songwriter
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/ray-charles-mn0000046861
Sites:
http://www.toadbooks.com/event
http://www.islesofshoals.com/
www.sargent-press.com
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35402/35402-h/35402-h.htm
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/games/photo-puzzle-jigsaw/#
http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/random-thoughts-on-a-rainy-monday
http://www.artstreamstudios.com/art-gallery-current-exhibit.html

History:
0610
1881- Count Leo Tolstoy, and set out from his estate for the Optina Pustyn monastery
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=6/10/2013
1898- U.S. Marines landed at Guantánamo Bay
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/jun10.html
1974- Tom Stoppard’s Travesties opened
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/25/nyregion/a-review-of-travesties-at-the-mccarter-theater-center.html?_r=0
Bonus Poem:
Nadir
IF we must cheat ourselves with any dream,
Then let it be a dream of nobleness:
Since it is necessary to express
Gall from black grapes--to sew an endless seam
With a rusty needle--chase a spurious gleam
Narrowing to the nothing through the less--
Since life's no better than a bitter guess,
And love's a stranger--let us change the theme.
Let us at least pretend--it may be true--
That we can close our lips on poisonous
Dark wine diluted by the Stygean wave;
And let me dream sublimity in you,
And courage, liberal for the two of us:
Let us at least pretend we can be brave.

Elinor Wylie

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