![]() Recall, that one of the first questions that students askĪbout writing poetry is how do you know when to go to the next line? You give them different answers based on the poetics Is already a master on the level of form, on the level of techne. If we can speak of form separately from content (and that is a Big If), Siken ![]() Required of the poet is threatening, that when we are possessed by light there is the possibility that we will becomeĪccustomed to the light and not recognize it for what it is. Imagine being useless.” In another, the light that is To “Imagine standing in a constant cone/ of light. The book also quietly lets the reader in onĪnother secret: the strange pain of sustaining the sensitivity required of the poetic act. Of recurrent nightmares of illness, hunger, and bodies pulled from a river. Panic is the result, but the book is about a desire that is red, as in a slice of apple, a kiss, and blood. This book is about a species of desire that drives you to panic. ![]() ![]() Louise Glück wrote the foreward for Richard Siken’s Crush, winner of the Yale Younger Poets Series Award for 2004,ĭeclaring: “This is a book about panic.” I would disagree. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
May 2023
Categories |