"'Société' is 'after Peter Reading' in the sense that it borrows its structure from his poem 'Conversazione.' I think 'Société' is about the phenomenon of complaining about how awful everybody is until one day you realise that you’re awful too; that is to say, it’s about growing up."Paul Batchelor on "Société" |
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"Essential Workers Write COVID Haiku"
"The shifting group of about a dozen writers—among them home health aides, cabbies and subway clerks—had been meeting monthly for nearly a decade at the PEN America Center in SoHo when COVID-19 slammed the city in March."
via THE CITY |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Jason Schneiderman on W. H. Auden's “Musée des Beaux Arts""I remain amazed by how many rules the poem seems to break. The first stanza of the poem is a direct violation of that old dictum, 'show don’t tell.' Auden makes a lot of claims about how the Old Masters depict suffering, and he tells the reader how to interpret the paintings being discussed. The Old Masters might be showing, but Auden is quite definitely telling." |
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