Sunday, April 19, 2009

 

Honoring Deborah Digges - RIP



This video of Deborah Digges reading her poetry in Pasadena, March 2009 (one month before her suicide) is a gift. I wasn't familiar with her work until now, and what a waste, what a loss.

Listen to the last poem "Broom" and weep.


Comments:
oh god
her sadness is palpable.
but isn't it always, for all of us, in retrospect.
 
I suppose so, but this woman really grabs me, for some reason. There's a softness, a vulnerability that just anguishes me. And such a wonderful poet.
 
Isn't she a wonderful poet. She was also a most wonderful woman. A heart as grand as the world itself...

And so, on a brilliant, sunlit day in April in a private ceremony, Deborah Digges was laid to rest next to her beloved Frank on their plot in the forested section of Wildwood Cemetry, Amherst. "We shall meet again" is inscribed on the base of the bronze statue of a horse running. May she rest now, toward eternity.
 
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