Mary Szybist on Charles Wright
"The monk Thomas Merton claimed to have no method of prayer; 'quiet down and then it happens,' he used to say. I don’t claim to understand it, the peculiar power of Charles Wright’s poems to suffuse me in their wonders, to quiet me down. Charles has taught me better than to call this prayer. I’d rather let the synapse spark."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Prageeta Sharma on Marjorie Welish's "Some Street Cries"
“In Welish’s work I saw an embrace of the most wild, abstract and observational in Stevens, informed with her renewed freshness in constructing the image and its possible abstract correlative. She creates her own set of notes in her poems. Her book The Windows Flew Open broadened my universe of what the poem could be and hold as its subject: a language fueled from living in the mind." |
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