12.20.2019

against artifice

The poets I most admire need no artifice.

[The language itself being a necessary artifice.]

2 comments:

Joseph Hutchison said...

This perplexes me. Can you name, let's say, five poets who "need no artifice"? Thanks!

JforJames said...

I'm talking about the plain-speakers: Cavafy, Linda Gregg, Audre Lorde, Thomas McGrath, Adrienne Rich, come to mind.