"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
Friday, August 03, 2007
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pick these lament passages-- all that elegiac grace we never possessed
caught red-handed, indeed i am! in hindsight, it seems such a good idea to break the rule, but it was really only b/c i forgot -- which ruins the meaning of such an act. so, i've posted a new one.
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from Mark Strand's "A Poet's Alphabet", The Weather of Words
darling, i like it, but are we breaking the rule about following up a 3-line verse with a couplet?
caught red-handed, indeed i am! in hindsight, it seems such a good idea to break the rule, but it was really only b/c i forgot -- which ruins the meaning of such an act. so, i've posted a new one.
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