"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
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
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Howl: minds screaming hys- terical naked he wrote-- Listen. He is right.
3 comments:
Yeah, so I stole from Ginsberg. And, of course, from HAT, who used the word howl and set off the little flares in my brain.
idolatrous art, janet, idolatrous art...
That was a fun one! But I did use a few of my very own words, just for different. ;)
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