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
Zbigniew Herbert
You welcomed guests
from a folding
chair
in your garden
no one noticing
as you sank slowly
quietly into the
earth.
– Brian Beatty
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Brian's recent collections of poetry are Dust and Stars: Miniatures and Brazil, Indiana.
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Herbert's Mr. Cogito came to my attention as a review copy sent to a literary magazine I worked on in grad school. I'd never seen poems of such political/historical scope handled with such a lightness of touch.
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