"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
Sunday, September 16, 2007
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one comes to language from afar, the ear ponders, swishes into town
these three lines come directly from two poems by Jonathan Williams: "A Honey Lamb" and "A Vulnerary". I did a bit of splicing so that the middle line merges one poem into the next -- sort of a morphing of elisions...?
I should also say that I find Jonathan Williams difficult to engage and understand, and approaching his poetry really does feel like what this haiku says, or at least I hope it says...
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these three lines come directly from two poems by Jonathan Williams: "A Honey Lamb" and "A Vulnerary". I did a bit of splicing so that the middle line merges one poem into the next -- sort of a morphing of elisions...?
I should also say that I find Jonathan Williams difficult to engage and understand, and approaching his poetry really does feel like what this haiku says, or at least I hope it says...
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