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Norman MacCaig—For His 85th birthday - Poem
Literary Review, Wntr, 2002 by Peter McCarey
Norman MacCaig--For His 85th Birthday Maybe it's your fine disdain for them that puts me in mind of Thales the Milesian, Anaximander watching opposites curdle from the One, Heraclitus of Ephesus and Fire--all flat earthers, at home with archipelagoes of planets and a hebrides of heavy versifiers. A man with an appointment doesn't mummify his metaphors. You go back a long way, before jazz and the blues divorced, your words--to when what we know still lived with who we are; your voice ... to whenever it was the oboe learned to talk.
Peter McGarey has published extensively in magazines and anthologies. His most recent collection of poetry is In the Metaforest (2000). His other books of poetry include Town Shanties, The Devil in the Driving Mirror, and Double Click. His highly-successful long poem, Tantris, was published in a special issue of Lines Review (1997).
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