This Art: Poems about Poetry

ISBN-13: 9781556591846 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 165 str.

Michael Wiegers

Opis

The centuries have changed little in this art,
The subjects are still the same.--Kenneth RexrothWhy poetry? What is poetry and why do people write it and read it? Why, as Dana Levin has written, "this urge to making a scrapbook of stars"?Every poet, by accident or design, has responded to "Why poetry" by writing a poem about poetry (an ars poetica). Whether these poems focus on the personal, political, or philosophical, each recognizes that our world is more complicated than a direct statement.As Marvin Bell has written, "Writing is all and everything." This anthology of poems about the art and life of poetry--which draws widely from Copper Canyon's 30-year backlist of poetry books--proves him right.Poets write out of love and longing: Lord, let me live / long enough to dare /a love poem --Cyrus CassellsPoets confront suffering: since we will always have a suffering world, we must also always have a song.--David BudbillAnd poets write in order to live fully: We all stumble into ourselves /like this, fitting our fingers to the shape of letters, / while the page gallops out of our reach--Rebecca SeiferleOnly poetry lasts.--Ho Xuan HuongMichael Wiegers is the Managing Editor at Copper Canyon Press.CONTRIBUTORS Included: box]
Kay Boyle,
Olga Broumas,
Hayden Carruth,
Norman Dubie,
Han Shan,
Jim Harrison,
Carolyn Kizer,
W.S. Merwin,
Jane Miller,
Kenneth Rexroth,
Ruth Stone,
Anna Swir