Archive for August, 2005

Roethke and sincerity

After yesterday’s Hardy post, a few readers sent along their own favorite poems. I’ll post a few in the coming days.   I’ve been suffering from insomnia lately, partly because I’m stressed about my novel, partly because I’m insane, so when my friend Bill called my attention to Theodore Roethke’s famous villanelle “The Waking,” which begins “I wake to sleep, . . .

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