Elegy for Sol LeWitt by 

Ann Lauterbach4 April 09http://www.poets.org/poemADay.php http://www.hillsidebelize.net/discover/i/bluecreek.jpg

Elegy for Sol LeWittThe weather map today is pale. The lines on the map are like the casts of fishing lines looping and curved briefly across air. The sky now, also, toward evening, is pale.On Sunday, in Beacon, there were lines drawn on walls and also lines drawn across the canvases of the last paintings of Agnes Martin. One of them has two pale squares on a blackened field. The lines on your walls follows directions

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Continued …..

as if as if there were a kind of logic

charged with motion

at the end of winter: the pale blue northern cold

almost merged with the pale green

at Hartford, and then the blank newsprint of the sea.

Elegy for Sol LeWitt

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Ann Lauterbach

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Ann Lauterbach was born and raised in New York City. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, she attended Columbia University on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. She moved to London before completing her M.A. in English Literature. Lauterbach is the author of several poetry collections, including Or to Begin Again (Penguin, 2009), which takes its name from a sixteen-poem elegy, and is inspired by both Lewis Carroll's Alice and T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland. She is also the author of Hum (2005), If in Time: S elected Poems 1975-2000 (2001), On a S tair (1997), And for Example (1994), Clamor (1991), Before Recollection (1987), and Many Times, but Then (1979), as well as a book of essays, The Night S ky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience.

National Poetry Month is a month-long, national celebration of poetry established by the Academy of American Poets. The concept is to widen the attention of individuals and the media—to the art of poetry, to living poets, to our complex poetic heritage, and to poetry books and journals of wide aesthetic range and concern.

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