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Strafford Notes, 15 September, 2013
Sunday, September 15, 2013 10:24:00 AM

by Chip Bergeron

Poetry

Another month halfway through...

September 15
Events:
September 21-22, Washington, D.C. on the National Mall, 13th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival- President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are honorary chairs for the event. http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/authors/ http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/information/ http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/
Born:
0915
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), American social critic, historian, and the first major American novelist, The Leatherstocking Tales (1823-1827)
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/jfcooper.htm
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Cooper%2C%20James%20Fenimore%2C%201789-1851
William Howard Taft (1857– 03/08/1930) US President (27)
http://www.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf/page/landmark_15.html
Antonio Ascari, (1888 – July 26,1925) Italian race car driver / Grand Prix motor racing champion.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10379342
http://suite101.com/a/antonio-ascari-a78031
Festus Claudius Claude McKay (1890-1948), black American Harlem Renaissance poet and novelist America Home to Harlem, (1928), Banjo (1929) and Banana Bottom (1933)
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/mckay-claude
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/mckay/mckay.htm
Enslaved

Oh when I think of my long-suffering race,
For weary centuries despised, oppressed,
Enslaved and lynched, denied a human place
In the great life line of the Christian West;
And in the Black Land disinherited,
Robbed in the ancient country of its birth,
My heart grows sick with hate, becomes as lead,
For this my race that has no home on earth.
Then from the dark depths of my soul I cry
To the avenging angel to consume
The white man's world of wonders utterly:
Let it be swallowed up in earth's vast womb,
Or upward roll as sacrificial smoke
To liberate my people from its yoke!

Robert Benchley (1889 – 11/21/1945) US writer humorist critict and screenwriter
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/benchley.htm
http://nrbench.home.mindspring.com/robert_benchley.htm
Dame Agatha Christie (1890 – 01/12/1976) British myster ywriter
http://christie.mysterynet.com//
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/christie.htm
Today is the birthday of Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (books by this author). She was born in Enugu in 1977, the fifth of six children. She was a voracious reader and writer from an early age, and at one point she lived in a house that had once belonged to fellow Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. She's written two novels: Purple Hibiscus (2003) and Half of a Yellow Sun (2006). She often writes about the Nigerian-Biafran war of the late 1960s, and her second novel came about after four years of research into the conflict. She also published a collection of short stories, The Thing Around Your Neck, in 2009. When she isn't writing, she is frequently on a lecture circuit of American colleges, educating academics on "the real Africa" as an antidote to the one-dimensional portrayal that's typical in the Western media. "If somebody writes about middle-class Africans they say, 'Oh no, write about the real Africa. Write about Mugabe being terrible in Zimbabwe,'" she told The Independent. "You don't write about people who fall in love on the street. You don't write about Africans who have money and go on vacation because that's not 'real.' The real Africa is starving, or being bullied by Mugabe, or dying of AIDS." (less)
Passed:
0915

Arthur Henry Hallam (Feb.1, 1811-33), Eng poet
http://www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=9/15/2013

Robert Penn Warren (04/24/1905–1989) US writer -poet; first US PL
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/sep15.html
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5655
http://archive.org/stream/fugitivepoetsmod00pratuoft/fugitivepoetsmod00pratuoft_djvu.txt
The Nature of a Mirror
The sky has murder in the eye, and I
Have murder in the heart, for I
Am only human.
We look at each other, the sky and I.
We understand each other, for
For the solstice of summer has sagged. I stand
And wait. Virtue is rewarded, that
Is the nightmare, and I must tell you
That soon now, even before
The change from Daylight Savings Time, the sun,
Beyond the western ridge of black-burnt pine stubs like
A snaggery of rotten shark teeth, sinks
Lower, larger, more blank, and redder than
A mother’s rage, as though
……………………………………………. Time
Is the mirror into which you stare.
http://www.poetrymountain.com/classics/robertpennwarren.html

http://www.robertpennwarren.com/biography.htm

Sites:
http://wordxwordfestival.com/
http://www.classicreader.com/
http://www.libraryartscenter.org/
http://airandspace.si.edu/
http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/

History:
0915
1835 – HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands.
http://www.todayinliterature.com/biography/charles.darwin.asp
1862 – Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia
http://www.nps.gov/hafe/index.htm
1916 –Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme
http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/maps/maps_somme.html
1950 –United States forces land at Inchon, Korea
http://www.history.army.mil/books/korea/20-2-1/sn25.htm
2008 – Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/lehman-brothers-bankruptcy

Bonus Poem:
New York Bay at Dusk

NOW comes the fragrant night in from the sea
And all her flowery purples soon unfolds,
Like April-countries, violet sown, where we
May have the hush the eager time withholds.
Methinks heaven sometimes takes the world aside
5
And lends a happy ear to all it says—
Soothing its great unrest, and for its pride
Showing again the simple fields of praise.
This starry-lighted island is no more
The quick and restless city of my task;
10
It dreams with me and what may be in store
For either, we do neither care nor ask,
Leaving the dear fulfilment of my youth
In the safe care of thought and time and truth.
By Mildred L. McNeal-Sweeney

Hamilton Fish Armstrong, ed. The Book of New York Verse. 1917.

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