Our Spring term began with poems related to cooking. In Paul Violi's "Counterman" we saw that a very funny poem can also make serious points about listening and communicating. We explored the question of how many voices we hear in the poem, and we see Violi's knowledge of architecture used to make a comic and perhaps social point. Next!
David Baker, whose "Never-Ending Birds" we had enjoyed in a previous term, conveys a strong sense of time in talking about a relationship, a period in one's life, about memory and nostalgia--language remains.
In Session #2 we will take up the work of the Canadian poet P.K. Page.
Links for further reading:
Paul Violi obit from New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/16/books/paul-violi-poet-dies-at-66.html?_r=0
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