Intersection #66: A Few Good Poems
A Few Good Poems
“Good poems hold more than one knowledge […] a good part of their power lies in embraced tension, the way they pull in more than a single direction.”
-Jane Hirshfield (Nine Gates)
“Literature can achieve a curious emotional bargain with death.”
“…poetry, for me, has always involved an element of the other-worldly.”
“To phrase this in a somewhat more mystical way, poetry is the literary genre that points most willingly to the veiled significance behind the physical world.”
-David Bottoms (The Onion’s Dark Core)