Heart on the Left - by Adrian Mitchell
Written by bookofjoe
Published March 21, 2004
Published March 21, 2004
This British poet, revered in his native land, is almost unknown in the U.S. Any poet whose book is illustrated by Ralph Steadman is a poet worth reading and savoring. Wonderful, unique, sui generis. Here's a sample:
What Men Fear in Women
is as camouflaged
as a group of cougars
lying, perhaps,
among the spots of light and shadow
below a hot, astonishing tree
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As an college student at the University of Iowa in the 1960s I took a poetry course with Adrian Mitchell. Aside from his being a wonderful poet, he was a great teacher and was responsible for my love of poetry to this day.