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The poet writes, "The Monday when Daylight Savings, 2021, kicked in, I was left in the dark. The morning light appeared in our eastern window, then was gone by the time I finished washing the lunchtime dishes. The daytime was downright stingy in offering sunlight's optimism. A few days later, while I was on my couch with an Afghan around my legs, I sat up from my ten-minute nap, struck by a bright idea. I would write a hundred poems in a hundred days-why not? I pictured myself licking the end of a pencil to get them written in sort of a captain's log-do it longhand, I told myself. I woke before sunrise, wrote, revised, and got a poem done by lunchtime. Ambitious me. In truth this Hundred Poems Project was absurd. I knew-other poet friends knew-that more than half would end up the fireplace if not the angry teeth of our paper shredder. For me, that was a given. The act of writing mattered-keep it going, I told myself, be like a beaver and chew on a pencil, put down some lines, don't forsake this craft! This private project of mine was a reminder to myself that after five decades I remain a poet, a calling few can claim. I provide forty-eight of the one hundred poems written that fall. I like to think of this period as my downtime on the couch. The writing was anything but restful."


  • | Author: Gary Soto
  • | Publisher: Gunpowder Press
  • | Publication Date: Feb 01, 2023
  • | Number of Pages: 92 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback
  • | ISBN-10: 1957062053
  • | ISBN-13: 9781957062051
Author:
Gary Soto
Publisher:
Gunpowder Press
Publication Date:
Feb 01, 2023
Number of pages:
92 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1957062053
ISBN-13:
9781957062051