"What I Learned from Robert Bly"
"Such a response may read today as rather brutal, but for me at the time it was like an acolyte being whacked with a stick by a Zen master—an admonition to wake up and see reality in a different way. I was 24, and to be taken seriously enough to be so sharply criticized by someone of Bly’s stature was a gift that moved me not to give it up but to stay at it until I got better."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Evie Shockley on Jayne Cortez' "There It Is"
"Cortez’s trademark use of enumeratio—a rhetorical device that builds the force of an argument by offering detailed lists of the parts, causes, or effects of an issue—drives home the ruthlessness of this class of people: “They will try to exploit you / absorb you confine you / disconnect you isolate you / or kill you.” Enumeratio forms the poem’s fundamental structure." |
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