Blackbirds and Knitters.....

What could be the connection between those two things? Well, maybe we'll see some blackbirds when we're sitting on the library lawn on Saturday, celebrating World Wide Knit in Public Day. Don't forget to come by, and maybe sit and knit for a while!
Actually, there's a kind of literary connection. Oh, don't look so surprised - in a blog written by librarians, literature was bound to get dragged in sooner or later!

Do you know the poem,

"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens?
I) Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.

II) I was of three minds,
Like a tree
In which there are three blackbirds.

III) The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds.
It was a small part of the pantomime.

IV) A man and a woman
Are one.
A man and a woman and a blackbird
Are one.

V) I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after....

(for the full text, click here)

Well anyway, I found this interesting thing while roaming around the Internet yesterday. A very talented gentleman named Franklin Habit (He's an author, blogger, knitter, photographer) has penned (and illustrated)

"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Knitter", which cleverly re-casts Stevens's poem ....

"I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of yarn,
Or the beauty of sweaters.
The knitter clicking,
Or just after......."