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thenewgreen · 3993 days ago · link · · parent · post: Lil's Book of Questions: Shakespeare By Heart? and What Have You Memorized?
I took an "introductory to poetry" class in college and our final exam was to recite a poem from memory. I took our book from class, opened it to a random page and chose Elizabeth Bishop's The Fish. I can still get about this far before failing reading it live: It was an intimidating experience for me, but a formative one.
...then I start to fumble.... I caught a tremendous fish
and held him beside the boat
half out of water, with my
hook fast in a corner of his mouth.
He didn't fight.....