Today's Headline: A Newly Discovered Poem by Robert Frost This poem emerged from lists of questions, after trying to write a poem about Florida and journaling about where I was and reading about atoms scattering after death and after writing a different poem. I often go back over notes to see if anything leaps out, then try to continue that mood with new lines. Mortality, creation, and imagination were all on my mind.
Kim Addonizio on "Some of the Questions to Consider" |
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A Newly Discovered Poem by Robert Frost
"It was originally inscribed inside a copy of Frost’s second collection, North of Boston, that was found in a retired educator’s home library by a family friend, a book dealer, following the educator’s death. It’s a good poem, short and aphoristic, from a period when Frost, writing at the height of his powers, had a special affection for poems of this kind: brief, rueful, tight, focused."
via THE NEW YORKER |
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What Sparks Poetry: Farid Matuk on Language as Form
"I wanted this work to be accountable, to not settle for easy truisms about ambiguity or a lack of closure being liberatory or even interesting. I wanted, more than I had before, to risk being right or wrong or foolish or earnest or stylized. I don't know who to face, but in wanting to be accountable the poems call—a bit desperately, really—to readers I can't yet see. My ambition was to create across each poem and again across the book a complex of feelings, sometimes contradictory feelings, that would get at what's irreconcilable about the real." |
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