Julia Reed | 07/24/2008 1:10 pm
Julia Reed's Love Letters
In response to: In celebration of Kay Ryan's appointment as the 16th Poet Laureate, tell us: What is your favorite poem of all time?
Oh my God, one poem is indeed impossible, and it’s a good thing I’m far away from my bookshelves or I would be paralyzed, but off the top of my head: Rilke’s Duino Elegies, Jim Harrison’s The Theory and Practice of Rivers, Leonard Cohen’s Travel, most of Pablo Neruda. I spent a long love affair once communicating via a secret postcard code that employed Neruda’s 100 Love Sonnets. They will bring you to your knees: "I loved you without knowing I did … I broke into houses to steal your likeness …"

























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