I wouldn’t write at all if it weren’t
for myriad writers before me whose works showed me what was possible. The poems
of this series are small offerings of respect, of thanks, to those muses. –
Brian Beatty
Pablo Neruda
Even the
cheeriest
old-time banjo songs
result in
death in the end.
So miners sing
odes
to their love coal as
they disappear
into the mountain.
No one talks about
the insulting politics
of diamonds at work
above and below them.
– Brian Beatty
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Brian's recent collections of poetry are Dust and Stars: Miniatures and Brazil, Indiana.
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I'm not the first reader/writer to find inspiration in the poems of Pablo Neruda. His astonishing range as a poet means he offers something for everybody.
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