Poems remind me to pay attention to things I might normally overlook, things I think I already know. This disused silo is so much part of a familiar-to-me landscape that I almost don't see it—but writing toward it brought me closer to its ghosts and layers, its secret life that continues in spite of abandonment.
Kasey Jueds on "The Silo" |
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"Peter Gizzi on Michael Gizzi's Poem 'Requiem in March'"
"The poem, 'Requiem in March,' contains the lines, 'if it was only a plane crash / why didn't you walk from the wreckage?' Those lines floored me. Their words amazed me. What Michael had written was the only true thing that could have been said about what had happened. It was so true, in fact, that when I read those words a light went on that still burns. With majesty and mystery, poetry can say the truth and transform reality while posing the hardest questions."
via POETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA |
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What Sparks Poetry:
John Robert Lee on Philip Larkin's "Church Going"
"I took, and still take, however subsumed, his neo-formal poetic forms, unfussy, concentrated, a modest musical tone playing on half rhymes and perhaps above all, the finely detailed and close, film-like observation of the world around him, physical, natural, and emotional. 'Church Going' was one of the poems I copied as I learned from him how to shape such pointed, accurate stanzas." |
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