Poems–A. Baez

Poems–A. Baez

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December 5, 2021December 5, 2021 worldwordwebber

The Chiseled Riddles

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Here

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Trees in Public Places

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Night Visitation

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To Bated Spring

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The Formal Gardens, and Beyond

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Norway Maples, Spring

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A Feather

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Three Word Braid (Love Triangle)

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Welcome to my poetry collection!

While this site is in a blog format, it is really a slowly-amassing collection of my most finished work. Typically, I employ a “long marination” approach with my poems, allowing copious time for a piece’s ideas and form to develop and be refined as fully as possible. This can take months or years. Ultimately, though, a poem is like a garden–a living thing in continual evolution.

In the past couple of decades, I’ve gravitated toward formal styles. I’ve found that through them, I’m able to focus, unfold, and structure my ideas in a way that I rarely can in free verse. Beyond that, I’ve always been drawn to the types of musicality, rhetorical power, and structural sophistication that are uniquely possible in formal idioms. Of the established forms, I’ve found the sonnet to be particularly hospitable to my ideas. I also greatly enjoy devising custom forms to embody and rhetorically reinforce certain chosen themes.

I owe a big debt to the many poets, friends, and family members who have helped me with their constructive criticism and feedback over the years. It’s shocking when I think of what percentage of a given poem is attributable, either directly or indirectly, to them. My goal, ultimately, is to subject all of the poems here to that kind of rigorous scrutiny. Please help me, if you feel so inclined, with your own comments. After all, it takes a village to raise a poem!

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

–Oscar Wilde

 

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