This Art: Poems about PoetryMichael Wiegers The centuries have changed little in this art, Why 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 Cassells Poets confront suffering: since we will always have a suffering world, we must also always have a song.--David Budbill And 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 Seiferle Only poetry lasts.--Ho Xuan Huong Michael Wiegers is the Managing Editor at Copper Canyon Press. CONTRIBUTORS Included: [box] |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 12
... Hierro Robert Bringhurst RECORDING THE SPIRIT VOICES David Bottoms POEM Timothy Liu ARS POETICA Dana Levin GOING BACK TO THE CONVENT # 69 Madeline DeFrees Han Shan ( Cold Mountain ) POETS POETS EARLY SPRING EAST OF TOWN I KNOW HOW.
Poems about Poetry Michael Wiegers. DRINKING ALONE ON A SPRING NIGHT Having indulged in a spring dream , I sober up at dawn— To see the bright moon above a branch of plum blossom . At last I've made up my mind to lead a simple , carefree ...
... spring , which usually include the blossoms of such fruit trees as the plum and the apricot . The Royal Woods ( Shanlin ) were a huge tract of pear and chestnut trees planted adjacent to the palace in Ch'ang - an during the Ch'in ...