A Daily Dose of Art: “Lunch” by David St. John
Today’s poem from The Paris Review Daily Poem email is fantastic.
You should definitely go read “Lunch” by David St. John. One reason I love this poem is that it makes me want to engage with even more art. It also makes me want to drink a cocktail over lunch, if I’m honest.
I don’t know David St. John, so I’m going to go google him real quick.
Yeah. Wow. (Have I mentioned lately how there’s so much I don’t know? Also, this is why I love being intentional about encountering art because you will never run out. We will never run out. There’s always more to know.)
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Here’s an interview with St. John from March of this year over at the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Here are some of his poems over at the Poetry Foundation.
And below is an hour(ish) long reading from 2008.
What do you think? Please share your thoughts on this poem/topic or a glimpse into one of your recent doses of art in the comments below.
“Transformation” from WITHOUT END: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Adam Zagajewski, translated by several translators. Copyright © 2002 by Adam Zagajewski. Translation copyright © 2002 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.