"It's Goth. Hello!" Poets Exclaim!
The Millions' staff writer Nick Ripatrazone meditates on the exclamation mark in contemporary poetry, "Exclamation marks are not exactly rare in contemporary poetry—but they are occasional enough for us to take notice. For all their ubiquity in texts and emails, exclamation marks call attention toward themselves in poems: they stand straight up."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Sally Keith on Maya Angelou's
"When Great Trees Fall"
"I was in college in a small school in Central Pennsylvania and must have ended up in the large lecture hall to hear Maya Angelou by accident, if not for an assignment....The experience sent me off into the stacks to read for myself some of the poems I had heard Angelou read. Rereading I realized I could begin to rehear the music I had heard in person; following the lines, as I read out-loud, I felt my own voice approximate the same sounds. This was thrilling and utterly new.” |
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