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Three Memorial Day Poems

May 31, 2021 by DAVID M KATZ in Walt Whitman, John McCrae

On this Memorial Day, Walt Whitman’s “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” John McCrae’s “In Flanders Fields, and my “Poetics Lesson” offer us access to the living spirit that may speak to us from the dead.

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May 31, 2021 /DAVID M KATZ
Walt Whitman, John McCrae, Alabama Literary Review
Walt Whitman, John McCrae
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WENDELL BERRY’S 'THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS'

October 29, 2020 by DAVID M KATZ in Wendell Berry, Psalms, George Herbert, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman

A contemporary psalm itself, Wendell Berry’s poem, “The Peace of Wild Things,” aligns itself with the music of the Psalms.

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October 29, 2020 /DAVID M KATZ
Wendell Berry, Psalms, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Herbert, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Amiri Baraka, Archibald Macleish
Wendell Berry, Psalms, George Herbert, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman
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