Romantic Love Letter | Kenneth Fearing Poet
December 29, 2009 by Carol
Filed under Famous Love Letters
a romantic love letter written by Kenneth Fearing (1902-1961)
Kenneth Flexner Fearing (1902 – 1961) was an American poet and writer born in Oak Park, Illinois. Unfortunately his parents got divorced whilst he was still only about twelve months old after which he went to live with his auntie. After completion of his studies at the University of Wisconsin, Kenneth Fearing moved to the big city of New York where he began an almost full time job as a writer and poet although he was also very active in very left wing politics.
For a number of years his work appeared on a regular basis in The New Yorker and Poetry Magazine before founding a new magazine “The Partisan Review”. Amongst his other jobs he worked as an editor, journalist for various publications including writing speeches for a number of people. In his “spare time” he wrote a massive amount of books mainly pulp fiction although The Big Clock became successful and brought him to a much wider audience after its publication in 1946.He is the father of poet Bruce Fearing.
All right.
I may have lied to you and about you, and made a few pronouncements a bit too sweeping, perhaps, and possibly forgotten to tag the bases here or there, and damned your extravagance, and maligned your tastes, and libeled your relatives, and slandered a few of your friends, O.K., Nevertheless, come back.
Because tonight you are in my hair and eyes,
And every street light that our taxi passes shows me you again, still you,
And because tonight all other nights are black, all other hours are cold and far away, and now, this minute, the stars are very near and brightCome back. We will have a celebration to end all celebrations. We will invite the undertaker who lives beneath us, and a couple of boys from the office, and some other friends. And Steinberg, who is off the wagon, and that insane woman who lives upstairs, and a few reporters, if anything should break.
Carol says
For a professional poet who is meant to have a way with words I can’t say this is the most romantic love letter I have read asking for a former sweetheart to come back to their man. Although he admitted it he might have also said sorry for the that fact he lied. He seems to have been showing no regrets for his actions. Then to say they could throw a party and invite the people he suggests surely they would have been better to spend some time alone together and talk it out in quiet.
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Anyone else have feelings about this?
