Tayari's Blog: A Bit of Wisdom from Concord

Posted by TayariJones on October 24, 2005 04:53 PM
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A friend in Concord told me this story, which I think is worth sharing. Two living poets, Martin Espada and Robert Creeely, visiting Concord, went to the famous cemetery to pay their respects to the poets who had passed before them. As they were sitting on a bench talking to one another, a group of toursits literally knocked them over trying to see the graves of Emmerson and Hawthorne. My friend says he was struck that the tourists disrespected the living poets in their efforts to get to the dead ones.

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Comment #1, by xenia

Funny...and sad.

October 24, 2005 04:56 PM

Comment #2, by STEPHANIE

It seems we all tend to find the good in the dead and disregard the greatness in those that are yet alive...

October 25, 2005 08:44 AM

Comment #3, by Tinesha

Dang - this just reaffirms to me that we are in serious need of an arts movement - a pure literary movement. We need to bring the spirit of the 20's thru the 60's back where we would gather in eachother's livingrooms for the sake of ART. uhhh - something like that :)

October 28, 2005 03:05 PM

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