Happy New Year from Poetry Daily
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"Do Get On With That Eliot"
"Monroe at first was playing it safe. Getting Poetry started was a long shot. Why risk it by overinvesting in what Pound touted as the first truly modern poem? Pound argued that publishing it would bring her fame, which may have struck a resonant chord. 'I cannot remember when to die without leaving some memorable record did not seem to me a calamity too terrible to be borne,' Monroe said."
via THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE |
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What Sparks Poetry:
David Herd on Emily Dickinson's [I Dwell in Possibility —]"The poem’s possibilities are many. You feel them at every turn; in every space held open by her signature dash. The windows are numerous in this house because the poem’s meanings shift, each word opened to the range of its definitions. When she occupies in the final stanza–when she states her 'occupation'– we see her in her self-appointed role as maker of poems." |
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