"Falling" is a poem about moral refusal, about how, in living, we defer our absolute responsibilities. It's easy to ponder loving your neighbour as yourself, and, in practice, almost impossible to achieve. I know abstractly that other lives weigh as much as my own, but I put off the full significance of this knowledge, as I put off the possibility of faith in my own life, because of what truly having faith would actually mean.
Kate Cayley on "Falling" |
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David Ferry, Award-Winning Poet, Dies at 99
"'David Ferry inspired many other poets with his penetrating, unique verbal music, Robert Pinsky, a former US poet laureate, wrote in an email. 'Also inspiring to me and many others is David’s lifelong devotion to the art of poetry as a source of joyful wonder—for himself, for his friends and students, and for his readers.'"
via BOSTON GLOBE |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Jane Huffman on Language as Form
"In 'The Rest,' I use the repeating language pattern to demonstrate a breakdown from idea into sound, from the recognizable image—a vase of flowers—into something stranger, something that attends to the 'prehistorical, preconceptual and prelinguistic' utterance 'prior to its translation into language-mediated conceptual sense.'" |
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