Martín Espada on Whitman in the Time of Trump
"Whitman confronts a history of silence, charging himself with the responsibility to 'remove the veil.' If the alternative is silence, then the 'long dumb voices' of the despised and the 'forbidden voices' of the indecent must speak through him. The question, even now, is whether this country is ready for Whitman, open to his 'way of being' when we need it most.”
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What Sparks Poetry:
Brian Barker on Norman Dubie's "Ars Poetica"
"The ars poetica is a poem that takes the art of poetry as its subject matter. The tradition can be traced back to the Roman lyric poet Horace (ca. 19 B.C.E.) and his poem titled “Ars Poetica,” in which he argues that poetry should be both amusing and instructive. Modern and contemporary poets have approached the genre in a myriad of ways over the years, employing it, for example, to construct broad defenses of poetry, or to make arguments for particular kinds of poetics, or as a space to meditate on or define their own aesthetics." |
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