What Sparks Poetry is a serialized feature that explores experiences and ideas that spark the writing of new poems. In our third series, The Poems of Others II, twenty-four poets pay homage to the poems that led them to write. Each Monday's delivery brings you the poem and an excerpt from the essay.
Gesualdo to an Gesualdo d rests his life faithful, his, in pieces, introduction are discontinuous and harm the use, who did not lack intensity. c and highly individual the murder which was married between instances of workmanship and reduction. Their dramatic exclamations push the basic scale a time of the more true. b whose fame rests on her lover and between. The first vocal in the first four in the last two are discontinuous and harmonic to an introduction.
Gesualdo, Gesualdo extraordinary and because he gathered gathered thought (as these things were bound) one doubt sand hopes and after four years murdered. Ges- ualdo had time around even in these days ap- peared. Voice and word had taken the one and their equivalents were the spoken word in retro- spect. Gesualdo and died there a modernist us- ing purposes that went like Melchizedilc, 'with- out father and mother,' of no progeny born and died there. That some of the growing about the turn (not without provocation) for purposes a little to him he murdered and died there a modernist. Learning from him being acknow- ledged at Ferrara the most brilliant ended and returned. He founded, he seems to, he develop- ed, he is important. Into turns he issued and returned b and composer he caused his faithful year. Some time the remainder a master of ex- pression which has given history complexity in advance. Yet in this lies the true. Gesualdo is famous and a lover. In that year remarkable he had proved himself in musical style of anything achieved. It was hard to resist the harsh thrill- ing pleasure, the greedy harmonies and disso-, nance, filling the ordinary, throughout his pres- tige erring on the grounds. Erring is faithful though the proper matter of his song. Gesualdo reflects. His moods change during his life. For that matter, it ever has been and ever will be repeated, one hopes.
an unrelenting Gesualdo sits lonely and isolated in the foothills, schedule in not unpleasant and impressive. This is no acci- fascinating dent. And so entwined. Seven children played detail in the courtyard, sufficient signs of fecundity, in the chronicles, the subject of endless poems, of the tales contained therein, of writers are filled with it.
the element of With a personal sense of guilt and an unspeak- dialogue able desperation, the erotic is transformed. The inherent ardor alternates, love into mourning and ecstasy into flight. The early first place is of a greater reason partially to reside. It can no longer be thought of as a colorful interlude, but a new aesthetic of such dimension as ours appearing hard, attempted to this time, with gratitude, and generously, fearful of abandonment. In the opening of two voices between inner parts, pro- vides, provides, only a difference of outer voices. We hope to set the lengthy self complete, long- er, alert, savouring through extension.
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"It was not the first poem I loved but it was one which reshaped the foundations of what I thought poetry could be—abstract elliptical essay, sensuous discourse on aesthetic form, history, and a strange kind of oblique confession all woven together into a sprawling imagistic song."
