| "Aleksandr Blok’s little poem wasn’t the first one I fell in love with, but it was the first poem I read that showed me that poetry isn’t there merely to relay information. The poem is not about the event. It is the event. This poem’s repetitions and syntax enact what it says." |
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Harold Bloom with William Giraldi on memory, departed friends, and Bloom's new book Possessed by Memory: "These days, whenever I read, teach, or write, I am haunted by friends who educated me.... They seem to be in the room with me. They also appear in my dreams. I have never written a poem. My only gift, as I understand it, is to have learned to listen: to students and to ghosts. I could wish the book were less somber than it is."
via LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS |
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