What Sparks Poetry:
Robert Matt Taylor on Philip Levine’s What Work Is
"Even to my jaundiced eye it read like a perfect condensation of the big feelings of that moment. This is a thing that only poetry can do, I was reminded. “Scouting” and many like it in the book comprise a poetry of awakening, of simple amazement at being alive, at having lived and at the living still to be done, of making meaning out of the morass of experience, time, and trouble." |
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Why Read John Milton?
"And crucially, there is Milton himself, the failed revolutionary who narrowly avoided execution, composing the blank verse of Paradise Lost in his head at night while his daughters transcribed the poetry in the morning; a conflicting and often unlikable figure who nonetheless encompassed virtually all knowledge of the late Renaissance, and whose Paradise Lost is a polyvocal triumph strung between faith and doubt, orthodoxy and blasphemy, heaven and hell."
via THE MILLIONS |
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