My "Youie" portrait was a quotation...
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of the frontispiece engraving of Walt Whitman, age 37, for Leaves of Grass (steel engraving by Samuel Hollyer from a lost daguerreotype by Gabriel Harrison).
A couple of years earlier (1987) I'd heard a lecture by Joyce Carol Oates, at an Emily Dickinson conference in Chapel Hill, in which she'd said that "Dickinson, like Whitman and Rilke, was a poet of the soul." "Youie," I thought, was a revelation about soul.
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of the frontispiece engraving of Walt Whitman, age 37, for Leaves of Grass (steel engraving by Samuel Hollyer from a lost daguerreotype by Gabriel Harrison).
A couple of years earlier (1987) I'd heard a lecture by Joyce Carol Oates, at an Emily Dickinson conference in Chapel Hill, in which she'd said that "Dickinson, like Whitman and Rilke, was a poet of the soul." "Youie," I thought, was a revelation about soul.
You should have grown a tailored chin beard.
ReplyDeleteGood point about my photo's not being exactly a "quotation." I had to content myself with a loose paraphrase because Youie was coming at me fast and furiously—much faster than my facial hair grows. Besides, I can't grow a tailored beard but must depend on scissors and razor <grin>.
ReplyDeleteWhatever the provenance, I like it.
ReplyDeleteRe the two photos, below -- how great is that?! I loved seeing the two side by side. Both are great shots.
Serena! Speaking of great, ooooh, those child photos at Parenthetically Speaking...."!
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