"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
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Idolatrous Art: Hokku (1)
A sketch from your window-- Six syllables, page to screen. Let's be each other's guest.
2 comments:
Here we go. First line from "River Road Studio" by Barbara Guest (yes, I punned intentionally in the 3rd line.)
Excellent beginning, Sneza. Now we'll have to keep up...
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