The Joy of Poetry
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A Poem Thirty Years in the Making
Francisco Aragón discusses his poem, "1985," from his collection, After Rubén. "I showed the poem to John Montague. He was a visiting writer on the Berkeley campus in the Fall of 1985. His snippet of wisdom I carry with me to this day. 'Move the Spanish into the body of the poem,' he said. 'You have two weapons. Use them both.' Montague was the first Irish poet whose work I fell in love with."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Gillian Parrish on Paul Celan's "In the Daytime"
"This poem also expands my view of poem-making as a practice of attention to include poem as communion, as something more like prayer. Clearly, Celan’s poem is a poem of attention. Better yet, it is a poem that attends without wanting, that rests in a ready waiting-that-is-not-waiting. For only in such an open space can wildness arrive and minds meet." |
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