William Carpenter
"Girl Writing a Letter" by William Carpenter
Carpenter's poem "Rain" is the third poem Stephen Dunn cites in his essay "Bringing Home the Strange." "Bringing Home the Strange" is collected in Walking Light.
Carpenter teaches at College of the Atlantic in Maine. One of the courses he teaches is called "Creative Reading: Poetry as Ecology." You can find a brief description if you browse around in the "Girl Writing..." link.
Carpenter's poem "Rain" is the third poem Stephen Dunn cites in his essay "Bringing Home the Strange." "Bringing Home the Strange" is collected in Walking Light.
Carpenter teaches at College of the Atlantic in Maine. One of the courses he teaches is called "Creative Reading: Poetry as Ecology." You can find a brief description if you browse around in the "Girl Writing..." link.
posted by Anonymous at 8:05 PM
3 Comments:
Carpenter has an interesting, stuttering, philosopher style: he's not afraid of compound clauses or repetition. There's something quietly endearing about his poems--the voice dares you to see through the excesses and sympathize with the core idea. Thanks for sharing these texts.
I like the girl writing a letter poem. It's meta-, funny, and a perfect example of a cool prose poem. It remnds me of Kenneth Koch. It makes me wonder if I should try something more narrative like this one.
Yeah, and I want to take his creative reading class.
Don, Sandra, if you haven't read "Bringing Home the Strange," the Dunn essay that contains Carpenter's poem, man, you should. He looks at a Jeffers poem and, oh, I can't remember, three others, five total. I guess I'd better go read it again.
Later,
Jack
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