What Sparks Poetry is a serialized feature that explores experiences and ideas that spark the writing of new poems. In Books We’ve Loved, our editorial board members and invited poets reflect on a book that has been particularly meaningful to them in the last year. Each Monday's delivery brings you a poem from the book and an excerpt from the essay. 
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From a limbo for unbaptized infants and for animal souls let a dead fox step out
to testify against the language.
Standing for a second in an ant-wing light of pine needles before a boy summoned
to speak of him forty years later.
Not a general one, a plenipotentiary of the idea of the fox, in his cloak lined with
the universals.
But he, from a coniferous forest near the village Żegary.
I bring him before the high tribunal in my defense, for what remains after desires
are doubt and much regret.
And one runs and sails through archipelagoes in the hope of finding a place of
immutable possession.
Till chandeliers in the rooms of Heloise or Annalena die out and angels blow
trumpets on the steps of a sculptured bed.
A cheerless dawn advances beyond a palm-lined alley, loudly proclaimed by the
rattling surf.

And whatever once entered a bolted house of the five senses now is set in the
brocade of a style.
Which, your honor, does not distinguish particular cases.
from the book THE COLLECTED POEMS / Ecco
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Susan Tichy on Czesław Miłosz's The Collected Poems

"His quarrels and debates with California—and with everything else, from the Catholic Church to the slippery and duplicitous powers of language itself—I met in the poems, and as poems. His dialectical movement through image and statement, history and lyric, was a revelation, a poetic practice that, in itself, opposed authoritarian thinking—literally a form of resistance."
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