The UMW Faculty Academy on Instructional Technology was a wild and wonderful ride. I’m not recovered; in fact, I may never recover, and I don’t think I’ll mind. More on that exhilarating event soon.

For now, however, A Donne A Day resumes with one of Donne’s more entertainingly sarcastic poems, one that manages to be quite a backhanded compliment as well as an assertion of the poet’s superior faithlessness. If that last adjective-noun combination sounds odd, even oxymoronic, you’re on the right track to encounter a neat, disturbing, and darkly funny little poem.

I’ve heard from a couple of listeners who’d like comment, but at the end of the poem–a good idea, since it will allow anyone who wants the poem as a self-contained unit to stop the playback when the poem is over.

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