"A Poem Hitches a Ride on a Rocket"
"The Clipper team wanted to send earthling signatures along for the ride, and they hoped Limón might be able to dream up a message from, well, humanity. Limón was up for the challenge. She’s been writing about constellations and the moon since she was a kid pondering the heavens in Sonoma County, Calif. She already had six books and a National Book Award nomination under her belt. She loves Star Trek and voyages of all stripes. After all, Limón said, 'Poetry is the language of mystery and the unknown.'"
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What Sparks Poetry:
Diane Seuss on Reading Prose
"Keats’s ballad opens with three stanzas in the voice of a questioner, after which the knight-at-arms takes over, answering the questioner through storytelling. Likewise, set at the center of Lorca’s poem is a dialogue between the older and younger man. As the green girl teeters on the balcony, suspended between dream and reality, life and death, so Keats’s knight occupies the in-between, stranded by the faery 'On the cold hill’s side.' And each poem, in its way, serves as an allegory for the container itself, the ballad form, which inhabits the liminal space between narrative and lyric, story and song." |
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