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Tag: robin grove

  • Show me what we just did

    Some things may not be said – could not be said.Some writings wind around the things that may not, could not be said. They only tease and suggest the appearance of… How indeed, when speaking is a framed sequence and what one wishes to articulate is – an assortment of experiences/sensations all packed up… Language that…

  • Why this world can’t be just bits and digits

    Everyday is honey be that of lemon or dew. Everyday is juice of creation and love. I want to mix fluids with you. —————— Aku, cinta banget puisi that I want to crush it in my palm crush it a brown stiff autumn leaf crush it a moth to fragments fine as fish food I…

  • All coincidental pieces fall and fit to a pattern

    at a lecture by Robin Grove, who on that occasion, recited Beowulf by Seamus Heaney, I couldn’t catch any of the words being a foreign student of English intimidated by any poetry, I just sat there listening, surrendering to the sounds It was years later when I had to teach poetry that I started to…