W.S. Merwin - My Friends

The unrivaled Sarah reads from W.S. Merwin's Moving Target.

Vital statistics:

Video duration - 1:37

Best line/phrase - "They take the same roads they miss/Each other"

Worst line/phrase - "Brotherhood it says on the decorations"

Most apt piece of punctuation - See Best line/phrase (the line break)

Poetic school - Anatomical Naturism

(Housekeeping note: from this day forward, I'll update Daggled Mermaids every other day. I apologize to those of you who need a daily poetry fix, but this policy will keep quality higher in the long run, and hopefully thwart any further hiatuses.)

Kenneth Koch - To You

The first guest reader on Daggled Mermaids is the illustrious Will. He reads from Kenneth Koch's Collected Poems.

Vital statistics:

Video duration - 1:16

Best line/phrase - "I am crazier than shirttails"

Worst line/phrase - "A new/Harmony of thoughts!"

Most apt piece of punctuation - The semicolon in "The kid searches for a goat; I am crazier..."

Poetic school: Anachronistic Walnutism

Marina Tsvetaeva - Rails

Here's a poem by Marina Tsvetaeva, yet another poet whose name I probably flubbed. The poem itself is good though, and I like my recital. It's from Penguin's volume of her Selected Poems.

Soon, the introduction of separate sound recording, so that you'll be able to hear each and every poem that appears on Daggled Mermaids!

Me - Languaging the Profound Pause

There's nothing quite like bad poetry to spice up a Thursday afternoon.

This was recorded a few days ago. Today I got a haircut, so we'll soon see a new era in Daggled Mermaids.

Don Marquis - mehitabel dances with boreas

I actually dislodged a bit of concrete ceiling in the process of executing one of my arm gestures. It hurt like hell.

This writer is fantastic.