On the wing

New and selected poems by Frank Beck

The Sun Lifts the Branches

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The sun lifts the branches of the elm trees into the flock of perched sparrows. It wipes night from the wings of gulls, and, where...
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Edgartown Midnight

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The poem ends, and we return to the beach to let the moon affect us. Edgartown lies silent, sleeps under sea-breeze, Orion overhead ca...

Apparition in brown suede

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Alternate photo for the cover of Blonde on Blonde He stands at the mouth of the empty alley. The wind makes a nest of his hai...
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Coffin Rock

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The ochre of the island on his charts mingles with his wife's yellow hair; neither deserts him, rounding Coffin Rock, guiding the ...
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A puff of smoke

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He taught Latin at the college that used us as its town and pretended to be above such speculation, but, on...
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Frank Beck
I am a New York-based writer and translator. I review poetry for The Manhattan Review and write about music for The Elgar Society Journal. With Raleigh Whitinger, I translated Lou Andreas-Salomé's novel 'Das Haus' ('Anneliese's House' from Boydell & Brewer).
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