Purple Banana
10-04-2007, 08:19 PM
He's the former US Poet Laureate... His work is very simplistic, but it evokes in the reader a sense of dragging the completely mundane to a higher level that we see it from a different perspective.
I'm not a poetry person, really, but his poetry simply catches me, and holds me.
There's someone on YouTube that sets animations to his readings. Here's one of my favorites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xovLpim_1s
I'm not a poetry person, really, but his poetry simply catches me, and holds me.
There's someone on YouTube that sets animations to his readings. Here's one of my favorites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xovLpim_1s