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Carol Rumens on Marilyn Hacker's "Ghazal: Myself"
"As a whole, the poem seems energised by the quarrel between individualistic and communal drives. It’s the artist’s quarrel and the lovers’ quarrel: human societies depend on some kind of resolution of the dilemma to work at all. The relentlessly chiming refrain of 'myself' through the poem sustains the sense of enchantment and entrapment."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Shara Lessley on Stanley Plumly's "Dutch Elm"
"As a poet, Plumly might be described as an elegist deeply attuned to the natural world. Formally varied, his work is both tender and apprehensive. Often drawing on memory, it attends to matters of isolation, strange beauty, resilience, and loss. 'Dutch Elm,' the opening poem in Plumly’s 2017 collection, Against Sunset, operates very much within this mode. It is in many ways a procession of grief, a sonnet haunted by longing." |
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