This poem comes from Leeladhar Jagoori’s fifth poetry collection, What of the Earth Was Saved (1977). It is a type of lyric that is found throughout his work. I might call it a disembodied love poem: there is a concrete side, curbed by disappointment or shortcoming, that then morphs into an existential personal statement within the context of that love poem. Here, the poem’s repetition makes it particularly powerful.
Matt Reeck on "I'll Come to You" |
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"The Poets Have Taken Governors Island"
"Professional poets, first-time poets and many falling somewhere in between gathered at the two-day festival to take in one another’s verse in the sweltering, leafy outdoors. Lyrics and impassioned rhymes echoed from the festival’s various stages across the lawn as poets — some whispering and subdued, others roaring their words across the park — shared their art with the city."
via THE NEW YORK TIMES |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Talin Tahajian on Language as Form
"All the affordances of the medium of language come together to realize the musical and narrative sequences of this poem, which taught me the fundamentals of rhythm and pacing. 'Half-Light' is one of the first poems I memorized. It is a 'pre-existing form,' as Bidart describes across his poetry and interviews, that I inhabit almost every time I try to write, mostly unbeknownst to my more conscious enterprises." |
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