1. Favorite spider poem is probably Robert Frost's "Design" -- I'm sure you've read it. The playfulness of the octave undercut by the despair in the sestet. Definitely worth the (re)read!
2. I read a poetry collection last summer that completely knocked me out. It was about spiders and outer space and maybe the poet's mother's sickness? It's written by a professor at some school somewhere. I forgot the title and the author and apparently literally everything else about the book; I've been kicking myself ever since because it was SO GOOD. Like, eye-openingly, jaw-drappingly good. But I can't ever find her book again because I don't know anything about it!
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Two things:
1. Favorite spider poem is probably Robert Frost's "Design" -- I'm sure you've read it. The playfulness of the octave undercut by the despair in the sestet. Definitely worth the (re)read!
2. I read a poetry collection last summer that completely knocked me out. It was about spiders and outer space and maybe the poet's mother's sickness? It's written by a professor at some school somewhere. I forgot the title and the author and apparently literally everything else about the book; I've been kicking myself ever since because it was SO GOOD. Like, eye-openingly, jaw-drappingly good. But I can't ever find her book again because I don't know anything about it!
(This is a desperate plea for help.)
"The opposite of a veil." Love that.
Do you know Walt Whitman's poem "A Noiseless Patient Spider"?