"Poetry comes at things through particulars, by means of images, and it doesn't deal so easily with generalities. Its mode is to cherish without limit. You could say it is idolatrous art. Some poems, the great poems, are true to their specific situations deep down, but they also have a universal quality that lets them live again and again, even in apparently unrelated circumstances." -Galway Kinnell
Saturday, April 28, 2007
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A book of my nights in cities in yellow gray geography
Book of My Nights by lyric poet Li-Young Lee. He wrote the entire book during a stretch of several nights -- so trite as it sounds, the title refers to the writer's process as well as the book's content (and/or the author's/reader's malcontent, it seems). I've always been intrigued by the hardiness of materials that are crafted at night -- in the wee, dark hours when everything else is shifting and impermanent -- and thought this collection is a "sweet" one, it has a lot of the flesh and blood of the heart.
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A reference to one of my favorite poet's titles
which one? please spill.
Book of My Nights by lyric poet Li-Young Lee. He wrote the entire book during a stretch of several nights -- so trite as it sounds, the title refers to the writer's process as well as the book's content (and/or the author's/reader's malcontent, it seems). I've always been intrigued by the hardiness of materials that are crafted at night -- in the wee, dark hours when everything else is shifting and impermanent -- and thought this collection is a "sweet" one, it has a lot of the flesh and blood of the heart.
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