{"id":2534,"date":"2017-07-04T17:38:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T07:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/?p=2534"},"modified":"2017-07-06T13:03:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T03:03:36","slug":"lawnmowing-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.perilousadventures.net\/blog\/?p=2534","title":{"rendered":"Lawnmowing poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Asa Gray wrote Increase Lapham:
\npay particular attention
\nto my pets, the grasses.<\/p>\n

— by Lorine Niedecker (1940).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This semester, I’m teaching a poetry course<\/a> for third year undergraduates. I’ve never been one\u00a0 to divide a semester into the usual kind of weeks (week one: line, week two: stanza, week three: metre and metonymy … no, no, no!), so it will come as no surprise to some of you to hear that\u00a0during week two we’ll be doing\u00a0‘lawnmowing’.<\/p>\n

I have a small but rather lovely little folder that contains my favourite lawnmowing poems.\u00a0These include (in historical order, by date of first publication):<\/p>\n