Showing posts with label poetic material. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetic material. Show all posts
1.11.2014
hard case
The poem was not obscure, it was obdurate; made of poetic material impervious to casual reading.
12.17.2011
stand clear
Sometimes the content is so inherently poetic that all the poet must do is to keep the language from getting in the way of the telling.
3.19.2008
debris reader
A poet is a vagrant reader, a debris reader: Cereal boxes, fortune cookies, instruction manuals, pill bottle labels, junk mail, coupons, ticket stubs. Any scrap of printed matter, no matter how inconsequential, may yield a revelation.
3.08.2008
how it happens
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The old woman came from Myli with a basket of tomatoes so she could enter my poem.
--Yannis Ritsos, from "Monochords," translated by Paul Merchant
In Pieces: an anthology of fragmentary writing, edited by Olivia Dresher, Impassio Press 2006.
The old woman came from Myli with a basket of tomatoes so she could enter my poem.
--Yannis Ritsos, from "Monochords," translated by Paul Merchant
In Pieces: an anthology of fragmentary writing, edited by Olivia Dresher, Impassio Press 2006.
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