That verse recalls another aspect of Guthrie's work: ingeniously action-inspiring tunes like "Put Your Finger in the Air" and "Riding in My Car".
There is another kind of ingenuity, though, that Trethewey's verse recalls: a linguistic ingenuity.
His verses recall the Romantics' longing to escape to a simpler and truer life; they are marked, however, by a classical clarity and finish.
Many of the day's verses recalled the season of Occupy Wall Street, including Mr. McDonagh's "West Street Story," about delivering a rider to 200 West Street, the Goldman Sachs headquarters.
A1 Incest Verse Prompts Recall The New York City Board of Education recalled a Maya Angelou book that had been sent under a Mayor Giuliani initiative to libraries for children in kindergarten through third grade.
Narrated in a voice of prosey companionability, his poetry recalls the colloquial free verse of Grace Paley, Frank O'Hara, and Charles Bukowski, the last of whom Medvedev has translated into Russian.
Jeremiah John Callanan was the first to use the Gaelic refrain in English verse, and Sir Samuel Ferguson wrote epic-like poetry recalling Ireland's heroic past.
Profoundly Catholic, her own verse also recalls the poetry of Saint John of the Cross.
In these worldly, witty, eloquent poets, McClatchy finds his immediate influences; his verse also recalls the prose of Proust and James, with their gilded settings and winding syntax.
"My father was a real Shakespearean fascist, in that he had a view about how it should be done, in terms of how you speak the verse," Hall recalled recently.
