In Search of Poetry
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James L. Marshall
The title In Search of Poetry is a metaphor for gradual emergence of the author's devotion to expressive arts. Towards the end of high school, interests were divided between music and science. His family's orientation toward the latter prompted technical studies at M.I.T., culminating in a master's degree in engineering. A career in teaching, research and consulting followed: briefly in New York, then in the Philadelphia region, where he married and settled in Swarthmore with his growing family while teaching at Villanova University. Parallel to this, however, was continuation of early activity in jazz and classical music, on piano and later cello. Then study at the University of Pennsylvania led to a 1964 M.A. in theory and composition, and much chamber music performed and written since. Poetic effort, occasional during early years, gained momentum through setting poems to music in song and choral works. He eventually joined Poets Walk In, a group meeting to read their own poems aloud.
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In Search of Poetry - James L. Marshall
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Contents
Preface
WHIMSY
FORM AND SHAPE
MUSIC
NATURE AND PHILOSOPHY
FEELINGS
NARRATIVES
To Bunty with love
Preface
I invite you to think of poetry as a distillation of life’s experiences. In Search of Poetry, then, includes poems I have written, grouped according to different aspects of my life. Rather than following strict chronology, I’ve sequenced the groups somewhat by increasing maturity. The first group, Whimsy,
begins with childish results produced in first social encounters with poetry as a distinct genre and goes on to include poems from much later. Form and Shape
gives a naive introduction to those two topics. I began to devote poems to fuller emotional expression from midlife on; some of these appear under Feelings.
Other groups include examples touching on music, nature, philosophy, and narrative. A few remarks before each group orient the reader to its part in the Search.
Where appropriate, a few poems (or parts) by other authors are included, with each poet identified. Three acknowledgements are given for material used in the section Narratives
: E. E. Cummings’s poem pity this busy monster,manunkind
was the source of material paraphrased and quoted in the poem in homage e.e. cummings. A lecture, Science/Technology and Poetry,
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