Your Wednesday poem: Waders by Andew Motion theartdivas.com/2017/08/waders
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And reposting yesterday's poem: Dear Exile, by Mai Der Vang theartdivas.com/2017/08/dear-e
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And your bonus poem: The Widow’s Lament in Springtime by William Carlos Williams theartdivas.com/2015/02/the-wi
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This masterwork was the poem of the day three years ago:
From an Unwritten Theory of Dreams by Zbigniew Herbert
theartdivas.com/2014/08/from-u
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Thanks for posting - new poet for me! Beautiful, terrible echoes of Auden's "Musée des Beaux Arts" in the first section.
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Herbert is one of our greatest poets. Coetzee once told me that no other writer, prose or poetry, comes close to him.
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Do you recommend a book to start with, or just dive in?
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Mr. Cogito is one of the best. His collected poems are amazing, but it seems the translation isn't up to par. 1/2
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The Cogito poems appeared in various books but I think they were collected in English. You can also start by doing a search on my blog.

