What Sparks Poetry:
Olivia E. Sears on Ardengo Soffici's "Rainbow"
"It was striking to me that Soffici wrote this poem full of beauty and tenderness, while he was (simultaneously) preparing for war....Soffici had written years before about existential dread and about his efforts to combat the void: 'Art for me is the only way to escape the concept of nothingness that otherwise haunts and terrifies me.' In these poems, he filled that void with color, shape, sound, and alchemical transformation." |
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"The Sensuality and Innovation of a Master Poet"
"The more I worked on his poetry, the more the stony exterior of Basho the monument was stripped away to reveal a living, breathing human being....Basho the man cared about the less fortunate and overlooked in both the human world and in nature....He made connections that others did not, which is really why we still read his work today."
via THE JAPAN TIMES |
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