"Bacon, Hys Booke. Kepe Out. Thyss Means You!"
Another artfully written poem by Esther Cameron, with deep political and cultural implications.
The poet Esther Cameron adapts a classic poetry form for modern subject matter, with wit and insight.
If you’re a culture vulture as I am, you don’t often associate Michigan with poetry, and when you do it’s either fairly dreadful stuff like Edgar Guest or far removed from personal experience such as Thomas Lynch or Philip Levine. It is true several transplants have wound up in Michigan by happenstance, including academic hires such as John Ciardi and Richard Tillinghast. Homegrown Jim Harrison is a poet, but is better known for his fiction and essays.That leaves Saginaw’s own Theodore Roethke, a groundbreaking “deep…
. . . but on the other hand . . . Have you ever been stuck in one of those interminable meetings that seem to have no good purpose? “An Occasional Poem in Honor of D— W—” When will he stop? we all wondered. When will he at last withdraw? After our nerves have been sundered And after our patience is gone? The future is but shadowy stuff, But we agree it can’t get here soon enough! Did you ever notice how some signs are…
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