Blue Wine (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: John Hollander
- First Published: 1979
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Art or artists, Poetry or poets, Jews or Jewish life, Alcohol, Television or television broadcasting, Greek or Roman times, Judaism, Greece or Greek people, Wine or wine making
The Poem
“Blue Wine” comprises eleven numbered sections. They vary in length from the three-line seventh section to the twenty-nine lines of the eighth section. Each line in the poem is fourteen syllables long. One key to the poem is its dedication: “for Saul Steinberg.” The inspiration for the poem was a visit by John Hollander to Steinberg’s home, where Steinberg (an artist, humorist, and cartoonist) had done a drawing of several bottles of “blue wine.” The whimsical names Steinberg gave the bottles in that initial drawing are given in the poem’s eleventh...
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