"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, September 08, 2007
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reimagined, the world expands language is not something static
The world and our perspectives are mutable -- in the same way the hanging man tells a particular story w/o using words. These two lines are culled from Veronica Forrest-Thomson's "Poetic Artifice" (1978).
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The world and our perspectives are mutable -- in the same way the hanging man tells a particular story w/o using words. These two lines are culled from Veronica Forrest-Thomson's "Poetic Artifice" (1978).
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