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THE POETRY OF BRETT RUTHERFORD


Version 1.4. Updated February 24, 2024.


NEW POEMS POSTED AS WRITTEN


FEBRUARY 2024

JANUARY 2024

DECEMBER 2023

  • Christmas, Don't Ask. What was your Christmas like? ... I changed the subject.
  • Prowess of the Prussians. Adapted and translated from Victor Hugo, l'Année Terrible. "December 1870"
  • The Forts of Paris. Adapted from Victor Hugo, l'Année Terrible, "December 1870"
  • To France, Abandoned. Adapted from Victor Hugo, l'Année Terrible, "December 1870"
  • Our Dead. Adapted from Victor Hugo, l'Année Terrible, "December 1870"
  • The Warning. A howling madman in downtown Pittsburgh
  • Family, Anglo-Saxon Style. "They watch for one another's death notices"
  • Who Is the Ultimate Victor? Adapted and translated from Victor Hugo, l'Année Terrible, "December 1870." Attention, Teutons! We have a thing or two it seems we need to teach you!
  • The First of January. Translated from Victor Hugo, l'Année Terrible, "January 1871"
  • The Jumbo Sandwich. Childhood memories of bologna in Scottdale, PA.
  • Letter to a Lady, Carried by Balloon. Translated and adapted from from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “January 1871”
  • The Stupidity of War. Adapted from Victor Hugo, l'Année Terrible, "January 1871"
  • No! No! No! Adapted and translated from Victor Hugo, l'Année Terrible, "January 1871" "The King of Prussia, here and lording it over Paris! No!"
  • Summation. Adapted and translated from Victor Hugo, l’Annee Terrible, “January 1871.” A denunciation of Louis-Jules Trochu (1815-1896), President of the Government of National Defense, who resigned from his post January 22, 1871.

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