'We are fortunate to live in this city of art, where on almost every street corner there’s some form of art work, including poems to read and enjoy while you wait for the Sun Link. And a magical place like…
on little cat feet.I chose this line from Carl Sandburg’s poem as the title for a University of Arizona OLLI course I teach because it shows how a poem can come softly padding into your life and take you by surprise, even if you think you hate poetry. Think of how fog tends to creep in like a cat, slowly settling over a harbor or city. Our lives, whether we admit it or not, are surrounded by poetry. We breathe it like air.
You know that lyric from a favorite song whose magical lines you keep singing over and over in the shower? Well, that’s how the earliest poems were shared. They were sung. You may be familiar with this first stanza of Dylan Thomas’s famous poem. “Do not go gentle into that good night/Old age should burn and rave at close of day/Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” Kind of like what rocker Neil Young sang in Hey Hey, My My : “It’s better to burn out than to fade away.
Don’t let anyone tell you what poems you should read or what they mean. That’s between you and the poet on the page. It’s what Ruth Stephan envisioned when she first founded the University of Arizona Poetry Center in 1960, where a person can “discover poetry for herself or himself by browsing alone, selecting alone, and reading alone in a quiet atmosphere.” She wanted there to be no intermediaries between you and the poet, no snotty critics or teachers to tell you what’s good or not.
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