Chris Abraham

summertime duvet (cheese cloth melody): In 1996, Anne Brossard and I traveled around the globe. Anne was in the last stage of freedom before attending graduate school at Columbia, and I a photographer. And I wrote this poem about the oppressive heat of Singapore, which is nothing compared to DC funk.
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Sweatshirt: Love poem written for and about my English Rose.
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The Bicycle Ride: Located in Lit
The Blight of the City at Night: I wrote this when I was sitting on a bench outside my Sophomore dorm.
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The Pope's Penis by Sharon Olds: Surely one of my favorite poems. Amazing. My four favorite poets are Sharon Olds, Galway Kinnell, Emily Dickinson, and Walt Whitman--there are more but these are the top-4.
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The Pure Contralto Sings In The Organ Loft by Walt Whitman: I don't know why I remember it, but the line, "the pure contralto sings in the organ loft," seared itself into my brain—maybe because "contralto" was a new word to me.
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The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams: His most popular imagist poem. The most popular imagist poem. William Carlos Williams was an American poet, writer, and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. In addition to his writing, Williams had a long career as a physician practicing both pediatrics and general medicine.
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The Red-Hooded Sweatshirt: I fell in love with an English Rose named Liz Humphries while studying in England at UEA. When I met her, we were at the Norwich boat house for UEA. She wore a big unflattering sweatshirt, red as a Cardinal. I imprinted on it.
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