The Lake Isle of Innisfree
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
I will arise and go now,
and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.
THE INNISFREE POETRY JOURNAL
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Innisfree 10
(the John Koethe issue)
Spring 2010
Welcome to Innisfree 10, with which we celebrate Innisfree's tenth issue and fifth anniversary.
We continue our series of Closer Looks at the poetry of an exceptional contemporary poet with a generous selection of poems from the books of John Koethe, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award winner (for Falling Water), whose eighth collection of poems, Ninety-fifth Street, is just out from HarperCollins. Koethe's voice is unique in American poetry: as Mark Strand has observed, his poems "are like no one else's," and as John Ashbery has written, "Falling Water ranks with Wallace Stevens's Auroras of Autumn as one of the profoundest meditations on existence ever formulated by an American poet."
I encourage new readers of Innisfree to browse our earlier Closer Looks:
Innisfree 5, fall 2007: Terence Winch Innisfree 6, spring 2008: Eric Pankey Innisfree 7, fall 2008: Marianne Boruch Innisfree 8, spring 2009: Dan Masterson Innisfree 9, fall 2009: Alice Friman Innisfree 10 also includes a page on the life and art of Jacklyn Potter, our friend and colleague, who has been grievously missed since her sudden death in 2006.
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