Judson Jerome

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Judson Jerome Poems

Because the warden is my cousin, my
mountain friends hunt in summer, when the deer
cherish each rattler-ridden spring, and I
have waited hours by a pool in fear
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I guess I have a deficiency. God never
said boo to me when as a boy I stood
straining in church with muscular endeavor
for the sweet squirt of salvation. I never could
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Consider the chalice: both what I seek
And where I find, believing Savior's blood
Was laced with meter and rhyme - my antique
Sacrament. Whittle toothpicks from my rood,
...

Love equals people times the square of the speed
of light.
If we but knew the way to split
our atoms of isolation, paradise
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Judson Jerome Biography

Judson Jerome (1927 - August 5, 1991 in Xenia, Ohio) was an American poet, author, and literary critic, perhaps best known for having written the poetry column for Writer's Digest for thirty years. Jerome was also responsible for a controversial amendment to Ernest Hemingway's 1933 short story A Clean, Well-Lighted Place ; in 1956, Jerome -- then an assistant professor of English at Antioch College -- wrote to Hemingway to inquire about a section of dialogue which he saw as problematic. Hemingway responded to Jerome with the thirteen words "I read the story again and it still makes perfect sense to me"; however, when A Clean, Well-Lighted Place was republished posthumously in Scribner's Magazine in 1965, the passage in question had been changed to address Jerome's concerns. The Jerome-inspired changes, and whether Scribner's was correct in making them, remain a subject of debate among Hemingway scholars.)

The Best Poem Of Judson Jerome

Deer Hunt

Because the warden is my cousin, my
mountain friends hunt in summer, when the deer
cherish each rattler-ridden spring, and I
have waited hours by a pool in fear
that manhood would require I shoot, or that
the steady drip of the hill would dull my ear
to a snake whispering near the log I sat
upon, and listened to the yelping cheer
of dogs and men resounding ridge to ridge.

I flinched at every lonely rifle crack,
my knuckles whitening where I gripped the edge
of age and clung, like retching, sinking back
then gripping once again the monstrous gun,
since I, to be a man, had taken one.

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Judson Jerome Quotes

He wants to treat everybody's eyes with the same drops.

When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.

I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.

Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.

Keep always busy so that the devil will find you always engaged.

Honest speech does not seek secret places.

The Roman world is in collapse but we do not bend our neck.

The laws of Caesar are one thing, those of Christ, another. Papinianus judges one way, our Paul another.

I gather roses from thorns, gold from the earth, the pearl from the oyster.

That rain is the best which falls steadily on the earth. A sudden and excessive downpour ruins the fields.

Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.

To the pure, all things are pure.

My speech is too fast; my oration confused; love knows no order.

Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.

May they perish who said what we said before we did.

You make a virtue out of a necessity.

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