{"id":144992,"date":"2020-05-13T12:35:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T16:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=144992"},"modified":"2020-05-13T12:37:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T16:37:28","slug":"poets-on-couches-eliza-griswold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/05\/13\/poets-on-couches-eliza-griswold\/","title":{"rendered":"Poets on Couches: Eliza Griswold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/griswold-titles5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-145045 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/griswold-titles5-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/griswold-titles5-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/griswold-titles5-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/griswold-titles5-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>In this series of videograms, poets read and discuss the poems getting them through these strange times\u2014broadcasting straight from their couches to yours. These readings bring intimacy into our spaces of isolation, both through the affinity of poetry and through the warmth of being able to speak to each other across the distances.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QQzVtEc5xHo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><main><\/main><main class=\"article-body blog-body\"><span id=\"more-144106\"><\/span>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/2022\/after-our-planet-mark-strand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">After Our Planet<\/a>\u201d<br \/>\nby Mark Strand<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 125 (Winter 1992)<\/em><\/main><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I<\/p>\n<p>I am writing from a place you have never been,<br \/>\nWhere the trains don\u2019t run, and planes<br \/>\nDon\u2019t land, a place to the west,<\/p>\n<p>Where heavy hedges of snow surround each house,<br \/>\nWhere the wind screams at the moon\u2019s blank face,<br \/>\nWhere the people are plain, and fashions,<\/p>\n<p>If they come, come late and are seen<br \/>\nAs forms of oppression, sources of sorrow.<br \/>\nThis is a place that sparkles a bit at 7\u00a0<small>P.M.<\/small>,<\/p>\n<p>Then goes out, and slides into the funeral home<br \/>\nOf the stars, and everyone dreams of floating<br \/>\nLike angels in sweet-smelling habits,<\/p>\n<p>Of being released from sundry services<br \/>\nInto the round of pleasures there for the asking\u2014<br \/>\nDays like pages torn from a family album,<\/p>\n<p>Endless reunions, the heavenly choir at the barbecue<br \/>\nAdjusting its tone to serve the occasion,<br \/>\nAnd everyone staring, stunned into magnitude.<\/p>\n<p>II<\/p>\n<p>The soldiers are gone, and now the women are leaving.<br \/>\nThe dogs howl at the moon, and the moon flees<br \/>\nThrough the clouds. I wonder if I shall ever catch up.<\/p>\n<p>I think of the shining cheeks, the serious palettes<br \/>\nOf my friends, and I am sure I am not of their<br \/>\ncompany.<br \/>\nThere was a time when I touched by the pallor of truth,<\/p>\n<p>When the fatal steps I took seemed more like the drift<br \/>\nOf summer crossed at times by the scented music of<br \/>\nrain,<br \/>\nBut that was before I was waved to the side<\/p>\n<p>By the officer on duty, and told that henceforth<br \/>\nI would have to invent my pleasure, carve it out of<br \/>\nthe air,<br \/>\nSubtract it from my future. And I could have no<br \/>\nillusions;<\/p>\n<p>A mysterious crape would cover my work. The roll of a<br \/>\ndrum<br \/>\nWould govern the fall of my feet in the long corridors.<br \/>\n\u201cAnd listen,\u201d the officer said, \u201con any morning look down<\/p>\n<p>Into the valley. Watch the shadows, the clouds dispersing<br \/>\nThen look through the ice into nature\u2019s frozen<br \/>\nmuseum,<br \/>\nSee how perfectly everything fits in its space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>III<\/p>\n<p>I have just said good-bye to a friend<br \/>\nAnd am staring at fields of cornstalks.<br \/>\nTheir stubble is being burned, and the smoke<\/p>\n<p>Forms a gauze over the sun\u2019s blank face.<br \/>\nOff to the side there is a line of poplars.<br \/>\nAnd beyond, someone is driving a tractor.<\/p>\n<p>Does he live in that little white house?<br \/>\nSomeone is playing a tape of birds singing.<br \/>\nSomeone has fallen asleep on a boxcar of turnips.<\/p>\n<p>I think of the seasonal possibilities.<br \/>\nO pretty densities of white on white!<br \/>\nO snowflake lost in the vestibules of April air!<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the sadness\u2014the empty restaurants,<br \/>\nThe empty streets, the small lamps shining<br \/>\nDown on the town\u2014I see only the stretches<\/p>\n<p>Of ice and snow, the straight pines, the frigid moon.<\/p>\n<p>IV<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to step out of my heart\u2019s door and be<br \/>\nUnder the great sky.\u201d I would like to step out<br \/>\nAnd be on the other side, and be part of all<\/p>\n<p>That surrounds me. I would like to be<br \/>\nIn that solitude of soundless things, in the random<br \/>\nCompany of the wind, to be weightless, nameless.<\/p>\n<p>But not for long, for I would be downcast without<br \/>\nThe things I keep inside my heart; and in no time<br \/>\nI would be back. Ah! the old heart<\/p>\n<p>In which I sleep, in which my sleep increases, in which<br \/>\nMy grief is ponderous, in which the leaves are falling,<br \/>\nIn which the streets are long, in which the night<\/p>\n<p>Is dark, in which the sky is great, the old heart<br \/>\nThat murmurs to me of what cannot go on,<br \/>\nOf the dancing, of the inmost dancing.<\/p>\n<p>V<\/p>\n<p>I go out and sit on my roof, hoping<br \/>\nThat a creature from another planet will see me<br \/>\nAnd say, \u201cThere\u2019s life on earth, definitely life;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSee that earthling on top of his home,<br \/>\nHis manifold possessions under him,<br \/>\nLet\u2019s name him after our planet.\u201d Whoa!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Eliza Griswold\u2019s most recent book of poems, <\/em>If Men, Then<em>,<\/em><em> was published earlier this year by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 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