confused about the ceiling

Focal Point , Jenny Qi Anybody , Ari Banias 77 Dream Songs , John Berryman Goddess of Democracy , Henry Wei Leung Natural History , Dan Chiasson The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void , Jackie Wang The Lost Son  (excerpts), Theodore Roethke

After not having read it for years, I revisited Ode on a Grecian Urn  last night. My take on it below: Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,        Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express        A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape        Of deities or mortals, or of both,                In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?        What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?                What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? "Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, / Thou foster-child of silence..." This time the strangeness of the first two lines struck me. No con...

The Renunciations: Poems , Donika Kelly Calling a Wolf a Wolf , Kaveh Akbar King Me , Roger Reeves  Erosion , Jorie Graham Living Quarters , Adrienne Su Incarnadine , Mary Szybist The Bad Wife Handbook , Rachel Zucker In progress Autobiography of Death , Kim Hyesoon Goest , Cole Swensen

Finished : Language as Bodily Practice in Early China , Jane Geaney (scholarly work) Postcolonial Love Poem , Natalie Diaz Into Each Room We Enter , Charif Shanahan Or to Begin Again , Ann Lauterbach  Eating in the Underworld , Rachel Zucker  Archaeophonics , Peter Gizzi Schizophrene , Bhanu Kapil  No Matter , Jana Prikryl 

Finished from earlier : Chord , Rick Barot  Finished : Life on Mars , Tracy Smith  The Triggering Town: Lectures , Richard Hugo Bright Dead Things , Ada Limon  Second Empire , Richie Hofmann  Toxicon and Arachne , Joyelle McSweeney  In progress : Into Each Room We Enter , Charif Shanahan

 Finished from earlier : The Beauty of the Husband , Anne Carson  When My Brother Was an Aztec , Natalie Diaz  Finished : Crow , Ted Hughes The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion , Kei Miller  Memorial , Alice Oswald  Voyage of the Sable Venus , Robin Coste Lewis  Second Empire , Richie Hofmann  On Tact, & the Made Up World , Michele Glazer In progress : Chord , Rick Barot Sight Map , Brian Teare Sleeping with the Dictionary , Harryette Mullen

  Finished from earlier : Sight Lines , Arthur Sze  Eye Level , Jenny Xie  Started and finished : Wodwo , Ted Hughes Tales from Ovid , Ted Hughes Weeds and Wild Flowers , Alice Oswald  Whereas , Layli Long Soldier  Black Movie , Danez Smith  Bestiary , Donika Kelly  In progress : Sweeney Astray  (selections), Seamus Heaney The New Black , Evie Shockley feeld , jos charles The Beauty of the Husband , Anne Carson When My Brother Was an Aztec , Natalie Diaz