I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible.
I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.
In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.
A ring-whorled prow rode in the harbour,ice-clad, outbound, a craft for a prince.They stretched their beloved lord in his boat,laid out by the mast, amidships,the great ring-giver. Far fetched treasur...
I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job
I want away to the house of death, to my father under the low, clay roof.
Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.
The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.
And you, Tacitus,observe how I make my groveon an old crannogpiled by the fearful dead:a desolate peace.Our mother groundin sour with the bloodof her faithful,they lie garglingin her sacred heartas th...
That was their way, their heathenish hope; deep in their hearts they remembered hell.
Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.
I don't think my intelligence is naturally analytic or political.
Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution.
Poetry is a domestic art, most itself when most at home.
All I know is a door into the dark
Peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.
The way we are living,
In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.