| Author | Message | ||
| Dale McLain
Senior Member Username: sparklingseas Post Number: 3455 Registered: 11-2004 |
"John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar prime of the American empire, died Tuesday at age 76." http://news.aol.com/article/john-updike-dead/319467 | ||
| Lazarus
Senior Member Username: lazarus Post Number: 4575 Registered: 10-2005 |
Why the Telephone Wires Dip and the Polls Are Cracked and Crooked The old men say young men in grey hung this thread across our plains acres and acres ago. But we, the enlightened, know in point of fact it's what remains of the flight of a marvelous crow no one saw: each pole, a caw. ~~~ This poem opens a collection I have of poems by Updike and is still a favorite, but many are worthy of careful reading, he wrote masterfully about everyday experiences and always managed to make them sublime. -Laz | ||
| Christopher T George
Senior Member Username: chrisgeorge Post Number: 7149 Registered: 12-2004 |
Hi Laz and Dale Thank you both for this remembrance of John Updike. A great writer, better known for his novels and short stories, although certainly Mr. Updike was an accomplished poet as well. His poetry was distinguished for its lightness and wit rather than its gravity, but still he made a contribution to American poetry. He will be missed. John Updike RIP. Chris Editor, Desert Moon Review http://www.thedesertmoonreview.com Co-Editor, Loch Raven Review http://www.lochravenreview.net http://chrisgeorge.netpublish.net/ | ||
| Cosima
Advanced Member Username: ffyredrop Post Number: 2412 Registered: 12-2003 |
Just last week I read his-1965- OF A FARM, one of his best novels. Readers feel he is forever a cherished part of their family. 76?... I'll look for his poetry. thanks Dale....very much, Frances |
