What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t?
There’s a brutal intimacy in poetry that no other form offers, and in that way, every poetry book is a poet’s diary. Every poem is a diary entry. The allowed lack of structure is like strolling through a poet’s mind because thoughts themselves are oftentimes random and nonsensical until you arrange them in a way that make sense to you. Poetry allows us to put those thoughts onto paper as raw as they appear in our heads in order to share that visceral self with the rest of the world. The beauty of poetry is that simultaneously it’s polished and it’s not, it’s intentional and it’s exploratory, and that’s something that only poetry can truly achieve.
No comments:
Post a Comment