For your consideration:
"September 1, 1939" by W. H. Auden
http://www.poets.org/poems/poems.cfm?prmID=1391
"Auden on Bin Laden" by Eric McHenry
http://slate.msn.com/culturebox/entries/01-09-20_115900.asp
Four poems compiled by Robert Pinsky
http://slate.msn.com/Poem/01-09-20/Poem.asp
Many people have sought poetry in response to the death, terror,
courage, and disruption following the recent attack and massacre. Here
are four poems: Edwin Arlington Robinson's "The House on the Hill,"
which meditates on absolute loss and the inadequacy of words; Marianne
Moore's "What Are Years?" on the subject of courage; Carlos Drummond
de Andrade's "Souvenir of the Ancient World," in which it is normal life
that becomes the remote, ancient time; and Czeslaw Milosz's defiant
invocation of the good, "Incantation."
Regards,
Rick Parker
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