Saturday, June 23, 2007

A Reinhardt of the Mind Poetry Corner

The Paxil Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
By Jennifer Heinicke
A satire on the idea that poets’ anxiety, depression and early deaths might be prevented by doses of Paxil or Prozac and might lead to different forms of art.

Watch a multimedia version of the poem:
>Part 1
Part2

Read the poem as it was originally published:
http://www.postmodernvillage.com/eastwest/issue18/18b-0005.html

We Real Cool
By Gwendolyn Brooks
Watch a multimedia version of "We Real Cool"

Daddy
By Sylvia Plath
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

Who was Daddy?