“Must Learn Neither” is the first poem in "An Eye in Each Square." Agnes Martin intended her compositions of light pencil lines and bands of quiet colors to show innocence, love, happiness and other emotions. These open spaces taught and settled me at a difficult time. As Martin said, "If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable." Don’t we all need more of that?
Lauren Camp on "Must Learn Neither" |
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Carl Phillips on the Power of Poetry
"A poem is made of patterns and the meaningful interruption of those patterns. There is sound. There's diction. A certain word might keep recurring. A certain image could come throughout the poem at different moments. And the artistry of writing a poem is getting those patterns to work in such a way that you condition the reader's expectations and you meaningfully disrupt those expectations at different points.
via PBS NEWSHOUR |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Michael Joseph Walsh on Sara Nicholson's April
"Maybe what Nature and Art have in common is their amenability to being read—the fact that both can be the object of lectio divina, the contemplation of the 'living word.' In April the gods have left us, but Nature, like poetry, is being written, and can be read. The world is a poem, or a painting, and a poem, in turn, is the world, or at least a world (an 'imaginary garden with real toads in [it],' if you will)." |
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