Speaking of markets plunging and skies falling, my friends at the Academy of American Poets have selected some poems to buoy us:
O Little Root of a Dream
by Paul Celan
translated by Heather McHugh and Nikolai Popov
In a Country
by Larry Levis
blessing the boats
by Lucille Clifton
Poet’s Work
by Lorine Niedecker
And more poems from their list, here.
Poems you would add to this list? Other lists? Comments open.
[Walker Evans, “‘Gas A’ Scrawled on Torn Posters, Vicinity Truro, MA,” 1929-31. Courtesy of the Walker Evans Archive, 1994]