Steve Dickison

       —Masabumi Kikuchi

You come away with the sensation that the dream's encased in gelatin, not the translucent-walled bead or bean vitamin supplements arrive in, but the soft flexible jellyfish texture, around the dream this floating nebular substance outside of which, it's like what is outside the universe, it appears to me, that place, over there, to be noplace at all, still inside the dream you need to play the instrument, pray then how are you supposed to do this if you don't have on the silver jacket, argento, the inmate/contestant next to you is wearing his, riveted to his charts mapped out in front of him, the inside passage to the inside song.
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Poet Carol Rumens on the Epic in the Age of Trump

"I became interested in the Theogony through a short quotation in Penelope Murray’s modern translation: 'We [the Muses] know how to tell many lies which are like the truth, but we also know how to tell the truth if we wish.'...Could the distinction between truth and seeming-truth be relevant not only to the classical epic, but to lyric poetry now?"

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Cover of Zbigniew Herbert's Collected Poems

"In a 1987 interview that appeared in the Partisan Review, the Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert said, 'It is vanity to think that one can influence the course of history by writing poetry. It is not the barometer that changes the weather.' With that metaphor, we are asked to see poetry as a gauge, a measure, a tool, a way of understanding the nature of phenomenon."
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