A crushed elation a cycle of ballades [index]

for W.S. Merwin


1 |   "Ensconced in tangles"

2 |   "Gypsy plunder"

3 |   "Tappings of the blind"

4 |   "One motif"



For relevant background, see also: W.S. Merwin's Search Party
(as well as notes following the first of these ballades)


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The above small cycle comprised my first experiment with the ballade form.

Here is a new ballade sequence (perhaps still in progress) --

1 |   Cadmium Orange [color poem / ballade]   10/12/06

2 |   "Earth's blear" [ekphrasis / ballade]   10/13/06

3 |   "Something ungrasped"    10/14/06

4 |   "Something to dare"    10/14/06

5 |   The Three Poeias    10/14/06

6 |   "New information"    10/14/06