They will tell me that my poem needs an image, a lamp-lit puddle or the shadow play of our lovemaking on the bedroom wall; that reading it’s like eating raw onions – not the sweet, white, Spanish kind but the homegrown, green-headed kind that make you cry without emotion. If I must conform, then here; […]
Poetry has concerned itself too much with words. Language and oral communication are now highly mediated by the technologies we have created. Yet the potency of allegory; narrative; repetition; methods for patterning sound and meter; are still capable of transcendence. Poets should apply their understanding of these powerful, mnemonic techniques not just to the written […]