My father contracted Covid-19 a few days before he was eligible for his first vaccine shot, so at this moment I am reading the poem through the lens of his death. I am thinking, with the poem, about protective covers and access and time and survival.
Mary Szybist on "We Think We Do Not Have Medieval Eyes" |
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"A Brief History of Metaphor in Persian Poetry"
"To say a poem in English sounds 'artificial' is to condemn it; the same remark about a pre-modern Persian poem could well elicit the response 'Of course it does; it’s a poem, isn’t it?' And so the fact that a particular metaphor or rhetorical trope has been used by many other poets, and is thought of as intrinsically 'poetic' rather than as colloquial, is not so much a barrier to its continued use as a validation of it."
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