Jorie Graham

A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.

The storm: I close my eyes and, standing in it, try to make it mine.

I think I am probably in love with silence, that other world. And that I write, in some way, to negotiate seriously with it . Because there is, of course, always the desire, the hope, that they are not two separate worlds, sound and silence, but that they become each other, that only our hearing fails.

I think I am probably in love with silence, that other world. And that I write, in some way, to negotiate seriously with it.