I would like to draw your attention to "The Many Lives of Moses Hadas," a superlative essay Rachel Hadas wrote about her father, the classics professor (and one of the figures in the sonnet above): https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/many-lives-moses-hadas
This for me has echoes of my favourite poem - Charles Causley’s Eden Rock. As an ageing orphan I keep that poem framed on my desk with a photo of my beautiful young parents on honeymoon.
I’m a fellow orphan, and this really landed. Mom and Dad *did* seem to be looking past me somewhere else. Nice to start the week with some thoughts about my folks. I’m very much looking forward to the coming weeks!
I would like to draw your attention to "The Many Lives of Moses Hadas," a superlative essay Rachel Hadas wrote about her father, the classics professor (and one of the figures in the sonnet above): https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/many-lives-moses-hadas
I was thinking along the same lines. He’s well worth reading on many topics.
I have his Ancilla to classical reading. 👌
Secret until now. !
The jig is up!
This for me has echoes of my favourite poem - Charles Causley’s Eden Rock. As an ageing orphan I keep that poem framed on my desk with a photo of my beautiful young parents on honeymoon.
"Eden Rock" is terrific!
https://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php%3Fdate=2002%252F09%252F11.html
Thanks, Tina, for mentioning it.
"Huddled under its expansive spread,
grouped in little clusters as we stand,
what is it that we pass from hand to hand?"--Memorable lines by one of the finest poets of our time.
Was deeply moved by the first few lines when I first read it. Maybe because my father died in 2023.
"As if under an awning,"
"I too now find myself chilled by that shade
which canopies the aging and the dead."
Those two lines have been haunting me, in a good way. I'm not sure what it is about that awning/shade/canopies triad, but it gives me chills.
Thank you for sharing, Ken!
You're welcome. Happy to see you here, Katherine.
I’m a fellow orphan, and this really landed. Mom and Dad *did* seem to be looking past me somewhere else. Nice to start the week with some thoughts about my folks. I’m very much looking forward to the coming weeks!
I hear you, Monique. I was deeply moved on my first read. Also: My mom liked this one--a first in Sonneteer history!