Rosanna Warren's new poetry volume, Ghost in a Red Hat (2011), contains a long poem, "Earthworks," that pays homage to the life and work of Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of New York City's Central Park, and of Albany's Washington Park:
....The Park The Central
Park The central idea that all--
ward heelers, dandies, urchins, freed slaves, desperadoes,
gents and ladies, the halt, the swift, the lame--
might come, might be drawn forth in courtesy, might
harmonize Democracy is space in which we flow....
Friday, April 8, 2011
A Poem for Spring in Albany
