"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, November 21, 2007
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These were all the crimes -- Even citing the poetry. It sounds absurd.
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From Poetry & Protest, about Dennis Brutus and his life as a poet and political activist.
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