Rhyming Name Dropper Returns
Art above byArnie Levin, courtesy of The New Yorker
By DWIGHT GARNER writing in The New York Times, Published: December 14, 2008
Art above byArnie Levin, courtesy of The New Yorker
By DWIGHT GARNER writing in The New York Times, Published: December 14, 2008
Fair readers, hail!
Now here’s a teaser:
Who’s this pale, familiar geezer
Appearing through the mists of time
Atop a tow’r of creaky rhyme?
With those lines in this week’s issue of The New Yorker magazine, Roger Angell introduces himself — or, rather, reintroduces himself — at the start of a page-long holiday poem titled “Greetings, Friends!”
It’s a poem that reads as if Mr. Angell has just pulled the cork on a bottle of good Champagne. A toast to the year gone by, “Greetings, Friends!” is stuffed with the names that gave 2008 its particular effervescence.
With those lines in this week’s issue of The New Yorker magazine, Roger Angell introduces himself — or, rather, reintroduces himself — at the start of a page-long holiday poem titled “Greetings, Friends!”
It’s a poem that reads as if Mr. Angell has just pulled the cork on a bottle of good Champagne. A toast to the year gone by, “Greetings, Friends!” is stuffed with the names that gave 2008 its particular effervescence.
Link here to the NYT online. for the full piece.
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