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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Review of new book about Bob Dylan

http://www.jewishreviewofbooks.com/publications/detail/bob-dylan-messiah-or-escape-artist
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Barely Darker Than The Air

My host is on the deck above.
It's just a dragonfly, she laughs.

But what I see,
down here in the dusk,
is barely darker than the air.

What I see is motion,
like filings to a magnet,
like new ripples on still water.

The shape
(barely a shape)
approaches, skimming past my ankle,
then retreats along the path --

approaches,
retreats,
approaches,
retreats,

and I would watch
until the air is darker than the motion,

but I have to retreat along my own path.

About Me

Susan Forbes Hansen
I've hosted The Sunday Night Folk Festival on WHUS / Storrs since August 1979. Since then I've also hosted Valley Folk (WFCR / Amherst) from 1985 - 2007 and In Town (WNPR / Hartford) for two years in the late '80s. My photos have graced a few CD covers as well as a few exhibit-walls. I've had a lot of letters-to-the-editor published, as well as some articles about folk-performers (the most recent, about Eliza Gilkyson, appeared in the Winter '05 issue of Sing Out! magazine). I didn't teach anything having to do with folk-music, photography, or writing.
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