Category: R.M. Engelhardt
R.M. Engelhardt
Poet, Writer And Author
Albany, NY
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Originally posted on Johns Hopkins University Press Blog: With the Modern Language Association’s 2014 meeting now in full-swing, we’re pleased to publish a second installment of Chapter & Verse today. This post draws from Daniel Tiffany’s work discussing the idea and history of “kitsch” as it relates to poetry. “Once upon a time, long before it had been reduced…
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Originally posted on R.M. ENGELHARDT: ? She’s gone. Temporarily Forever Finding me Here alone on the couch in The middle of Another Sunday afternoon With my good friends The Clan Macallan & Warren Zevon Reminiscing about all Of the old days & all of The best days past. Yet, perhaps it’s all Just an…
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O World of many worlds, O life of lives, What centre hast thou? Where am I? O whither is it thy fierce onrush drives? Fight I, or drift; or stand; or fly? The loud machinery spins, points work in touch; Wheels whirl in systems, zone in zone. Myself having sometime moved with such, Would strike…
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Originally posted on 101 Books: Oh, Spotify, how I love you. While I’m writing at work, I can pretty much pull up any song ever and listen to it—thanks to you, Spotify. I can also do stupid and pointless stuff, like imagining what songs might be on Holden Caulfield’s Spotify playlist—were he actually a real person,…
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I am the wandering poet, I do not sleep I am wasting these days in the dregs Of the deep. I live in the church of myself Bizarre & unfulfilled, The spirit of the waking man, And the fool, the reckless fool. For I am walking round the circle From the outside looking…
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And in this corner; It’s the hollow man & The drunken muse And that song That goes like this’ As the rain came down Upon the city streets & poets, sonnets And upon all of the earth As If Mozart had just Written it all for you On a Saturday night Himself…
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Tonight on television there is an actor talking about his battle with drug addiction, sex addiction and life. You would think that by the way the host is interviewing him that he is wise & worldly, an ancient sage from his battle with the curse of “celebrity” And there are a billion lights in the…
