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“The fear of being vulnerable prompts me into bringing myself forward.”

― David Ignatow

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March 3, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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“The fear of being vulnerable prompts me into bringing myself forward.”

-David Ignatow

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June 4, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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“The fear of being vulnerable prompts me into bringing myself forward.”

― David Ignatow

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December 3, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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“The fear of being vulnerable prompts me into bringing myself forward.”

-David Ignatow

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September 3, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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David Ignatow's many honors include a Bollingen Prize, two Guggenheim fellowships, the John Steinbeck Award, and a National Institute of Arts and Letters award "for a lifetime of creative effort."

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January 3, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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“There are times when I can find myself in a book, too, for two or three hours. But afterward I have such an urge to go out and reach for other people. Very often they're not around. There's also a metaphysical loneliness. We all feel it.”

― David Ignatow

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February 3, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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“I should be content
to look at a mountain
for what it is
and not as a comment on my life.”

― David Ignatow

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November 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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“The burden of living one's own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share. You take a step in a house, you start moving around the house, no one else moves with you. You're walking by yourself.”

-David Ignatow

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August 3, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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Direct statement and clarity were two of Ignatow’s primary objectives in crafting a poem. Fidelity to the details and issues of daily life in Ignatow’s poetry won him a reputation for being “the most autobiographical of writers.”

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April 3, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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The American Poetry Review debuted 50 years ago, with a full-cover photograph of David Ignatow, and poems by Denise Levertov, Donald Hall, David Smith’s translations of César Vallejo prose on poetry.

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February 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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“I like rust on a nail, fog on a mountain. Clouds hide stars, rooms have doors, eyes close, and the same words that began love end it with changed emphasis.”

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January 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Ignatow once told Contemporary Authors, “My avocation is to stay alive; my vocation is to write about it; my motivation embraces both intentions, and my viewpoint is gained from a study and activity in both ambitions."

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May 3, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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“Direct statement and clarity were two of Ignatow’s primary objectives in crafting a poem. Fidelity to the details and issues of daily life in Ignatow’s poetry won him a reputation for being “the most autobiographical of writers,” suggested Christopher Brown.

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June 3, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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The Bagel by David Ignatow | Poems Rethabile Likes po-re-li.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-...

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David Ignatow's 'The Bagel' turns a dropped breakfast into a playful somersault. Rolling after it, head over heels, strangely happy.
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July 4, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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"The Bagel", David Ignatow,
Kitty Inkpot, butter and strawberry bagel
Yamamoto paper "Typewriter Paper,
Moonman T1

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April 18, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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David Ignatow is remembered as a poet who wrote popular verse about the common man and the issues encountered in daily life.

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March 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Information by David Ignatow
This tree has two million and seventy-five thousand leaves. Perhaps I missed a leaf or two but I do feel triumphant at having persisted in counting by hand branch by branch and marked down on paper with pencil each total. Adding them up was a pleasure I could understand; I did something on my own that was not dependent on others, and to count leaves is not less meaningful than to count the stars, as astronomers are always doing. They want the facts to be sure they have them all. It would help them to know whether the world is finite. I discovered one tree that is finite. I must try counting the hairs on my head, and you too. We could swap information.
May 21, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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I have a name
a substitute for
the word
infinity.

When my name is called
it is not me
you are calling.

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January 12, 2024 at 9:33 PM
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Fidelity to the details and issues of daily life in Ignatow’s poetry won him a reputation for being “the most autobiographical of writers,” suggested Dictionary of Literary Biography contributor Christopher Brown.

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May 4, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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"Rescue the Dead", David Ignatow
Sailor - Morrocan Mint Tea
Kin-Kaku-Den Super White Washi Paper
Lamy 2k nib

Following the logic, to save the dead would be a fatal trap, as "to live" is to "be free" and "ignore those dead"

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April 12, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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“My avocation is to stay alive; my vocation is to write about it; my motivation embraces both intentions, and my viewpoint is gained from a study and activity in both ambitions. The book important to my career is the next one or two or three on the fire.”

-David Ignatow

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April 4, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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"Self-Employed", #DavidIgnatow
Visconti - Starry night
Leuchtturm A5
Pilot Elite
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"Listening", David Ignatow
Diamine (HK exclusive) - Lion Rock
B6 Tomoe River
Pilot Metro <1.1 stub> black (borrowed)

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May 19, 2025 at 1:17 AM