Rafael Cadenas' poem YOU was mesmerizing from the start. His music, word choice: his poems are almost like paintings; what he leaves out resonates just as much as with what he leaves in. And as with all poems, you search for the just-right word; first the poet and then the translator.
Sophie Cabot Black on "You" |
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What Sparks Poetry:
David Blair On W. H. Auden's "Petition"
"Naturally, I enjoyed the subtle rhymes so much that I did not even notice them, nor the poem's sonnet form, a perfect spell working on my barely conscious mind because here, in the last line and a half of the poem, was a sentiment so sudden that I could, without embarrassment, sport around with it typed and taped to my binder on a strip of paper, a fortune cookie fortune, a restaurant's first dollar: 'look shining at / New styles of architecture, a change of heart.'" |
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