Dana Levin: "Lessons of the Line"
"Simic was clearly a sensualist. From his poems, you knew he loved food, and women, and all the earthly pleasures. Here too his philosophy of and was in play: death and brutality were everywhere, yes; and so was 'the sweet speech of trees.'"
via THE YALE REVIEW |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Heather Green on Language as Form
“In ‘Some Things I Said,’ David Ferry turns to his own work, his single-authored poems and translations, and draws forth a new poem in a new form, an elemental assemblage of fragments, lines sometimes presented almost exactly as they were in the source poem and other times altered.” |
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