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Aesthetic Realism Online Library

by cbalchin @ 2008-07-30 - 11:39:57

At the Aesthetic Realism Online LIbrary you can read poems, essays, and lectures by Eli Siegel, the founder of Aesthetic Realism, as well as works by other critics including people who study and teach this philosophy.

Here are links to some of my favourite poems. (I've included their beginning lines): 

Dear Birds, Tell This to Mothers
 "Fly, birds, over all grieving mothers.
  Tell them, if they know more,
  They will grieve less . . "

To Dylan Thomas
"I hope that where you are
 (I think so, too)
 People, including literary people,
 Will see you more as you were;
 And not get you so angry
 You'd die sooner than you had to.
 You wanted criticism for everything you did, . . . "

Something Else Should Die: A Poem with Rhymes
"In April 1865
 Abraham Lincoln died . . ."

The Dark that Was Is Here
"A girl, in ancient Greece,
 Be sure, had no more peace
 Than one in Idaho.
 To feel and yet to konw
 Was hard in Athens, too.
 I'm sure confusion grew
 In Nika's mind as she, . . . "

 Somewhere This
 (These are some later lines)
 A man going into a library;
 A shout from somewhere.
 "Chicken I want," says someone near.
 "O, what do I care," says a girl.
 "He loves me, I'm sure," says a girl.
 "What the hell do I care," says a boy.
 "What did he do then?" says a man.
 The elevated comes roaring by.
 Rain falls quietly.

Note: The "elevated" was the old  New York City elevated tube, or subway.

 Twenty-one Distichs about Children

"1. Bernice thinks a little.
Bernice is two months old; the world is new for her.
Ah, will her parents' angry world quite do for her? . . ."

 Spark
 "I am a spark,
  Which always goes out,
  For it needs another spark . . . "


 
 

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