Take this lunch hour — or 5 o’clock or high tea, or dinner or supper hour, whatever whenever you can accord yourself an hour for great pleasure and enlightenment — & listen to one of Robin Blaser‘s last reading in Robert Hass’ Lunch Poems series from 2008:
“…that was the beginning of my life in poetry — to find out that poetry had the most extraordinary intelligence, and that it would just wander and and wander and wonder. And so, I love it to this very day. Poetry is the language that one really must finally know — you know, before you get the hell out of here be sure that you got some poetry because … Read more Robin Blaser (1925-2009)