The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
Arts:Performing Arts
Today’s poem is Self-Portrait with Tumbling and Lasso by Eduardo C. Corral.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… "These days, we are loving reading and writing self-portrait poems, what I call the “verbal selfie.” It allows the author to be the runway, to elevate themselves into the frame of language. In so doing, the poet, like the author of today’s poem, experiments with perceptions of the self. I like how the poet in Rembrandt-fashion mythologizes himself in the lyric.”
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969: Us
968: The Long Goodbye
967: Ode to Purple Summer
[encore] 806: Polycardial
[encore] 822: Cricket Song
[encore] 804: Foxglove
[encore] 870: Hymn to Church Basements
[encore] 812: September
966: Love Poem, with Birds
965: from "Excess Sonnets"
964: abundance of light
963: Frederick Douglass
962: Afternoon in Andalusia
961: Nocturne
960: I’m Nobody! Who are you? (260)
959: On Earth
958: Alain Locke in Stoughton Hall
957: Rooms by the Sea
956: Hair
955: Love Sits by My Father
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