Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend.
Durable, memorable poetry is usually alert to complexity. A really good poem gives you a reason to read it 20 times, because the language in a good p… - Stephen Burt
Durable, memorable poetry is usually alert to complexity. A really good poem gives you a reason to read it 20 times, because the language in a good p…
- Stephen Burt
In the arts, in places where you're not going to save lives or save species, I think there's no reason to play ball. I can't imagine a serious poet w… - Stephen Burt
In the arts, in places where you're not going to save lives or save species, I think there's no reason to play ball. I can't imagine a serious poet w…
Good poems do a lot of things at once. Often, by doing so, they encourage us to acknowledge mixed and incompatible feelings. Good poems, like good wo… - Stephen Burt
Good poems do a lot of things at once. Often, by doing so, they encourage us to acknowledge mixed and incompatible feelings. Good poems, like good wo…
One chance, One life. Make it or screw it up, it's your choice. Don't wait to long or your time will be up. - Stephen Burt
One chance, One life. Make it or screw it up, it's your choice. Don't wait to long or your time will be up.
Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend. - Stephen Burt
To do a poem justice, explain what makes it unique; to get a poem noticed, explain what makes it typical. - Stephen Burt
To do a poem justice, explain what makes it unique; to get a poem noticed, explain what makes it typical.
Gunn would be an important figure-rewarding, delightful, accomplished, enduring-in the history of English-language poetry even were his life not as f… - Stephen Burt
Gunn would be an important figure-rewarding, delightful, accomplished, enduring-in the history of English-language poetry even were his life not as f…
Powell belongs, in fact to the first generation of American poets who may have grown up without even a vestigial connection to the accentual-syllabic… - Stephen Burt
Powell belongs, in fact to the first generation of American poets who may have grown up without even a vestigial connection to the accentual-syllabic…
In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of o… - Stephen Burt
In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of o…
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