
A vibrant tapestry of verse invites listeners into a world where the ordinary and the uncanny intertwine. The poet’s language shifts effortlessly between lush, sun‑lit landscapes and gritty urban corners, drawing images of stubborn shrubs breaking through new soil, cracked earth under bitter stems, and gulls drifting over winter rivers. With a mix of Spanish phrases and English lyricism, the collection feels both intimate and expansive, offering meditations on growth, loss, and the quiet power of everyday moments.
The pieces pulse with vivid sensory details—bright leaves imagined as yellow fish, clouds of purple smoke framing a modest village, and the rhythmic cadence of a child’s playful teasing of daisies. Themes of resilience and yearning surface through recurring motifs of nature’s stubborn beauty and the humble lives of those living on the margins. Listeners will find themselves moving between pastoral reverie and stark realism, discovering a poetic voice that celebrates both the fragile and the fierce in equal measure.
Language
en
Duration
~52 minutes (49K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Meredith Bach and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Release date
2016-05-04
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects

1883–1963
A doctor by day and a groundbreaking modernist poet by night, this American writer helped make everyday speech and ordinary objects feel new on the page. His work includes the much-loved poem "The Red Wheelbarrow" and the epic long poem "Paterson."
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