WHAT SPARKS POETRY:
ILYA KAMINSKY ON ALEKSANDR BLOK’S
"[NIGHT, A STREET, A LAMP, A CHEMIST’S SHOP]" "Aleksandr Blok’s little poem wasn’t the first one I fell in love with, but it was the first poem I read that showed me that poetry isn’t there merely to relay information. The poem is not about the event. It is the event. This poem’s repetitions and syntax enact what it says." | 