New Hampshire

A Bad Day For Robert Frost Alone I step in a dark wood, With fallen flakes upon my hood, Two feet of snow on every track And oh my belly craving food. There is a pain in my poor back. I don’t know if I’ll make it back To my warm cabin by the stream Before another sneeze attack. Goddamn it’s cold, like a bad......more

I feel like a philistine. Robert Frost’s New Hampshire won the Pulitzer Prize in 1924. And it does contain some amazing poems, including Frost’s most famous, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” and “Fire and Ice.” And I loved some of the other poems, too, especially “The Star Splitter.” But so ma......more