"Can Poetry Heal a Broken World?"
"Perhaps this is the job of the poet laureate—proving the impossible. Articulating the unknown. Poetry, Limón tells me, is a place for wonder. For mystery. 'It’s a place where we can go and find the strength to process a lot of this momentous chaos that we’re experiencing, both as human beings and as human animals on a planet in crisis.'"
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What Sparks Poetry:
Olivia E. Sears on Ardengo Soffici's "Rainbow"
"It was striking to me that Soffici wrote this poem full of beauty and tenderness, while he was (simultaneously) preparing for war....Soffici had written years before about existential dread and about his efforts to combat the void: 'Art for me is the only way to escape the concept of nothingness that otherwise haunts and terrifies me.' In these poems, he filled that void with color, shape, sound, and alchemical transformation." |
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