What Sparks Poetry:
Lauren Groff on "Carrion Comfort"
"'Carrion Comfort' is music; it is magic; it is my old companion during the long dark nights I lie sleepless and wracked with hopelessness, clinging to the poem as evidence that another soul has met the struggle and come out of it burning, come carrying a beauty so dazzling it is hard to look at directly." |
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Sonia Sanchez: "Straight Down to the Bones"
"I want my students to know that the function of your art is not necessarily to save people from horrors, but to give us all the strength to face them down. And then when the poem is read, it transfers to the audience the responsibility contained in the words."
via BOSTON REVIEW |
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