I'm looking for a particular recording of Alan Ginsberg reading America. It was on a mix tape I lost many years ago, and the particular moment that stands out is when he says "America I am the Scottsboro boys", someone in the (high as a kite and raucous) audience shouts out "you
are the Scottsboro boys!" Any pointers would be helpful, either to purchasable media or to online video.
posted by pmb
on Jun 15, 2013 -
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I am trying to track down this poem by Ted Kooser. It's the title poem of a book published in 1976 and now out-of-print (and purchasing it on-line is at least $100+). I thought it might be in the collection Sure Signs (1980), and requested it from the library, Wasn't in that collection however. Can anyone tell me where I could find a copy of this poem? I've also checked on YouTube.
posted by jackmcc
on May 1, 2013 -
6 answers
I'm hosting a wedding reception for a very good friend, with an Earth Day theme. The wedding favors will be an embellished brown paper lunch bag containing a few earth-friendly items, and I need a sweet little poem to include.
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posted by raisingsand
on Apr 18, 2013 -
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Can you name (and ideally link to) this poem by Auden - the only thing I remember is that the theme is that he is imagining a civilization (or a city?) built out of water
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posted by zresearch
on Apr 2, 2013 -
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"but am both and neither, being human". Or something.
I saw it once on a bus in Santa Cruz years ago, one of those PSAs some public agency ran with a couple of poems each month. I quite liked it, and have never again been able to track it down with a yearly poke at google. It occurs to me that AskMe might be a better place to try, especially since I remember it so poorly.
posted by freebird
on Feb 5, 2013 -
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In college, I read a really fabulously sexy, funny prose poem, that I think may have been called "This Condition". The first line may have even started "In this condition..." It was basically a collection of allusions and metaphors to sexual arousal that sort of built to a rhythmic climax at the end. I recall a reference to the shape of Florida.
Oh, poetry lovers of AskMe, can you help me hunt this poem down? I'm desperate to read it again.
posted by mostlymartha
on Feb 2, 2013 -
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This is a short question, but the internet sucks at poetry books so I've had no luck finding out what I need to know through other channels. Where can I find Tim Seibles' poem "The Groom"? Of his books that actually have a table of contents available online, that poem doesn't appear in any of them, and of course I haven't been able to find it among the other set. Help please! I love that poem and I want to have it again.
posted by invitapriore
on Jan 16, 2013 -
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I am looking for a poem that was published in Granta magazine sometime between 1992-1995. It wasn't in a poetry-only issue.
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posted by Duffington
on Jan 12, 2013 -
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When you rearrange the lines of this poem from ABC DEF to ACE BDF, it goes from being complimentary to critical about this... king? Maybe? What poem am I thinking of?
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posted by wintersonata9
on Nov 17, 2012 -
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Where can I find the text of the poem "Swabian Tale" by
Ludwig Uhland that Albert Einstein extracted the term "Valiant Swabian" to refer to himself in communication with his wife Mileva?
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posted by zaebiz
on Nov 5, 2012 -
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Help me find this poem that involves the moon! I can't remember it but can remember the feeling I had when reading it!
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posted by Frowner
on Oct 17, 2012 -
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Can someone help me translate this wall scroll written in traditional Chinese characters? (photo inside)
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posted by melizabeth
on Oct 15, 2012 -
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What is the title/who is the author of this half-remembered poem about a mother/child relationship and peaches (I think)?
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posted by catch as catch can
on Oct 4, 2012 -
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My girlfriend has a favorite poem that involves a cricket (or possibly grasshopper) and a bird. I believe the bird has a red belly. Can you help me find the poem (it may also be a short story). I realize I'm being vague- sorry!
posted by razzamatazm
on Sep 13, 2012 -
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A very simple question about public domain and publishing, specifically regarding the use of a poem in a book.
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posted by jonathanbell
on Sep 11, 2012 -
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Ridiculously specific classical music question: What is the poem/program note that is supposed to be read before the final movement in Hindemith's 'Sonata for Alto Horn in E flat' (1943)? In the original German and the English translation, if possible.
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posted by Peter Petridish
on Jul 13, 2012 -
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Please help me find this poem about a car crash. I think it's from the New Yorker. Two drivers are in a car crash, and then they yell at each other until one of them says "wow, we were both scared," and then they feel better. Well, something like that.
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posted by Charity Garfein
on Jul 7, 2012 -
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Help me remember a long forgotten poem, Hive Mind! Here's what I remember: spring, a man growing horns and hooves, a fall into roots, red thread.
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posted by WidgetAlley
on Jun 27, 2012 -
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My mom has sold my childhood home :( I want to leave a 'time machine' box with small objects in a place where it may or may not be found.... I want to write something but I'm at a loss for words... Can you suggest a poem?
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posted by iiniisfree
on May 8, 2012 -
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Help me identify a poem? It was about a train ride, I think it described the view through the train window, and I think it was written in dactyls. (It had a rhythm to it that felt like a train ride.)
posted by Bufo_periglenes
on Apr 11, 2012 -
10 answers
Help me find two pieces of literature I read about thirty years ago, one a short story, the other a poem.
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posted by Toekneesan
on Mar 9, 2012 -
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Name that Latin, Greek, or Italian poem... Can you identify this poem from my senile grandfather's sparse details?
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posted by BusyBusyBusy
on Feb 27, 2012 -
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Poetry filter: Google can't help me as the poem plays on the Luke 11:11 "If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone?". Driving me mad not being able to find it, a a short 5-6 line poem, from an old UK anthology, Voices, which says broadly that in the future, we will all be equal and share, but still I will give stones to other children and keep bread for my own child. Not a translation and a modern non-rhyming poem.
posted by viggorlijah
on Feb 7, 2012 -
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Obscure Poetry Filter: Help me solve a mystery I've been considering for the last eight years. I need help to identify this poem that I got out of a random library book in college. It's definitely a Japanese or Chinese male author, and I'm pretty sure it came from the 1960's (the book was an anthology of Japanese and Chinese poetry from the 50's-70's, though the memory of the exact decades are a bit sketchy).
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posted by guster4lovers
on Jan 12, 2012 -
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Long-shot-arama: 13 years ago, I read a poem at my daughter's christening and then promptly lost the piece of paper I'd read it from. It was all about the things I wished she would have in her life, and I'm 98% sure it ended with "but most of all, I wish you love". Ring any bells?
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posted by malibustacey9999
on Nov 29, 2011 -
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Please help me find a short story or poem that functions as an extended metaphor. Preferably one as obscure or ambiguous in its meaning as possible.
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posted by leibniz
on Nov 21, 2011 -
22 answers
Suggestions for a poignant (but not depressing) poem to give on the occasion of a niece's christening?
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posted by Weng
on Nov 13, 2011 -
6 answers
What are your favourite spooky poems, that are two to three minutes long when read out, for an audience of adults?
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posted by siskin
on Oct 24, 2011 -
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I've read a poem that has intrigued me and piqued my curiosity but unfortunately it also confused me. It would be great if someone here could elucidate its meaning for me. The poem is
The Curse by John Donne.
posted by gregb1007
on Sep 19, 2011 -
6 answers
What is the name/term of art for a poem that can be read forward and have one meaning, and again backwards for another?
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posted by Chipmazing
on Aug 9, 2011 -
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Half-remembered-poem-filter! About a decade ago, I read a poem (written by a woman, I'm pretty sure) about the Challenger disaster. I distinctly remember that she conveyed the concept of their atoms spreading into nature. Now I can't find it anywhere, and I
hate when I can't find something on the internet!
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posted by you're a kitty!
on Jul 28, 2011 -
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What is the poem about branches of a tree, i.e. choices in life, withering when the narrator can't bring herself to pick one?
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posted by ramenopres
on Jul 18, 2011 -
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Do you have access to a copy of The Sorrow Dance, a book of poems by Denise Levertov? (Should be in most college/university libraries or large public libraries, if you happen to be visiting your library soon.)
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posted by kalapierson
on Jul 12, 2011 -
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I need a mushy reading/video for the team meeting on my last day at work. Up to five minutes long.
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posted by momus_window
on Jun 1, 2011 -
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