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Strafford Notes, 3 September, 2013
Tuesday, September 3, 2013 12:01:00 PM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

It's after Labor Day. Why doesn't it feel like fall???

September 3
Events:
Sept 3 , Moultonborough (1st Tuesday of the month) - 7:30pm - Moultonborough Town Library,– Featureing Lynn Clague,poet followed by open mike (Priscilla Burlingham, 476-2630) http://moultonboroughlibrary.org/mpl/events.asp
September 3 Portland Me. Port Veritas Open Mic & a feature At Bull Feeney's Bull Feeney’s Bar & Restaurant 375 Fore Street All Ages – $2 Cover 7-10pm (Open Mic . 7:30 feature 8:30 http://www.portveritas.com/wordpress/ www.portveritas.com

Born:
0903

James Joseph Sylvester (1814-March 15, 1897 )Eng math Prof/ poet
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/sylvester-james-joseph
Sarah Orne Jewett, (1849 –June 24, 1909) Maine novelist The Country of the Pointed Firs
http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/contents.htm
Howell Davies Andrew Marvell (1896-1985) Welsh editor and writer
http://www.walesartsreview.org/congratulate-the-devil-by-howell-davies/
Urho Kekkonen (1900-86 ) Finnish prolific columnist, prime minister (1950-3, 1954-6) and President of Finland from 1956 to 1982.
http://kirjasto.sci.fi/ukekko.htm
Loren Eiseley (1907– 07/09/1977) American anthropologist, educator ,philosopher, and natural science writer, "Men Have Their Time," The Firmament of Time
The Condor
The great bird moves its feathers on the air
like fingers playing on an instrument,
the instrument of wind; it climbs and scarcely moves
while steady thermals push
its giant wings still higher till it soars
beyond my sight completely, though it peers
through strange red eyes
upon my face below.
Its kind is dying from the earth; its wings
create a foolish envy among men.
Its shadow knew the mammoth and he passed,
floated above the sabertooth, now gone,
saw the first spearmen on the bison's track,
banked sharply, went its way alone.
Its eyes are larger than its searching brain;
the creature sees like a satellite,
but exists within
an ice-world now dead. This bird cannot
understand rifles, multiply its eggs,
one hidden on a cliff face all it has.
Its shadow is now passing from the earth
just as the mammoth's shadow at high noon.
Something has gone with each of them, the sky
is out of balance with the tipping poles.
No huge, tusked beast is marching with the ice,
no aerial shadow tracks the passing years.
Only below the haze grows deeper still,
only the buildings edge up through the murk.
Planes fly, and sometimes crash, but no black wing will write
the end of man, as man's end should be written
by all the condor wings beneath high heaven.
http://999poems.blogspot.com/2013/01/775-condor-by-loren-eiseley.html
http://www.eiseley.org/
Américo Parades ( Sept. 3, 1915 - May 5, 1999) . Mexican-American scholar - 1970 book, With His Pistol in His Hand.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/benson/paredes/index.html
https://myspace.com/tishhinojosa/music/song/con-su-pluma-en-su-mano-with-his-pen-in-his-hand-84498714
http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=paredes+americo&tag=googhydr-20&index=stripbooks&hvadid=2192795231&hvpos=1s1&hvexid=&hvnetw=s&hvrand=1951767847394424127&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_1422st1klr_b

Passed:
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Robert Greene (July 11, 1558 –1592) English author best known today for a posthumously published pamphlet attributed to him, Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit,
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/greene-robert
Lord Oliver Cromwell (04/25/1599 –1658) English Lord Protector
http://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/oliver-cromwell
Ivan Turgenev ( Nov 9,1818 -1883 ) Russian Author Fathers and Sons
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/turgenev.htm
e. e. cummings (10/14/1894 –1962) u. s. poet
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/156
Frederick Louis MacNeice(12 Sept 1907 –1963) Irish poet and playwright Prayer before Birth ; Autumn Journal
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/louis-macneice
Jean Rostand (10/30/1894–1977) French lampoonist, moralist, historian of the life sciences, biologist, popularizer scientific, pacifist, humanistic, anticlerical...
http://www.amazon.com/Jean-Rostand/e/B001KIDQC0
Alec Alexander Raban Waugh (8 July 1898 –1981), British novelist The Loom of Youth
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18863/18863-h/18863-h.htm
Frederick Dannay (10/20/1905–1982) US mystery writer /co-creator of Ellery queen
http://queen.spaceports.com/
Alan Dugan (Feb 12,1923-2003 ) US Poet
http://dversepoets.com/2012/11/19/pretzels-bullfights-alan-dugan/
Nomenclature
My mother never heard of Freud
and she decided as a little girl
that she would call her husband Dick
no matter what his first name was
and did. He called her Ditty. They
called me Bud, and our generic names
amused my analyst. That must, she said,
explain the crazy times I had in bed
and quoted Freud: "Life is pain."
"What do women want?" and "My
prosthesis does not speak French."
http://www.poemhunter.com/alan-dugan/poems/
James Stephen Fossett (April 22, 1944 –, 2007) American businessman, aviator, sailor, and adventurer and the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon
http://www.stevefossett.com/

. Sites:
http://www.nybooks.com/contributors/charles-simic/
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/
http://apothecaflowershoppe.com/
http://www.palmbeachpoetryfestival.org/
http://www.redapplefarm.com/Appleseed-Country-Fair.html
http://eatthispoem.com/

A Little Place I Like to Call Heaven-
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151716524339003.1073741849.44115954002&type=3

History:
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1802 -Wordsworth, William “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 “
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=09/03/2013
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/composed-upon-westminster-bridge-september-3-1802
1838- Frederick Douglass made his escape from slavery—traveling north by train and boat—from Baltimore
1964- Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson
http://www.wilderness.net/nwps/legisact

Bonus Poem:

THE GARDEN UNDER LIGHTNING

Out of the storm that muffles shining night
Flash piteous roses ghastly-sweet
And lilies far too white :
There is a pang of green,
A terror of familiarity ;
I see a dripping swirl of petalled things
That I once tended happily,
And paths I surely walked in that other life, —
Day.
My pale ghost-garden gibbers at me —
Beckons horribly — '
And vanishes!
Leonora Speyer

http://archive.org/stream/secondpaganantho00newy/secondpaganantho00newy_djvu.txt

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