This struck a chord because I’ve recently been working in form myself. He noted that form and rhyme were not the way we were taught to write poetry back in the Sixties, when the big influences were William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound. In his talk to students, Tom said he’d recently written a collection of 48 eight-line poems, formal poems that actually rhyme. The party was given by the Paris Review and took place at George Plimpton’s apartment, but George just said hello and waved goodbye – on his way to some more pressing event in Pittsburgh. He spoke informally to students in the afternoon and gave a terrific reading in the evening.īetween these two events, at dinner, we remembered that the last time we’d met was 15 years ago at a party in NYC - typical of how distances in Alaska enforce separation.
His latest book For the Sake of the Light: New and Selected Poems was recently published by the University of Alaska Press. Last month around the equinox, Anchorage poet Tom Sexton drove up to Fairbanks for a reading.
This month’s 49 Writers featured author John Morgan admits to being “seduced by iambics” while exploring the “cheater sonnet.” Maybe we should coin a phrase: Alaskan sonnet?
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