What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t?
I’m
not sure poems are meant to accomplish anything except to change how something
is seen or understood or felt. Poems are meant to go around touching souls. In
a tiny space a poem evokes a universe. The form is simultaneously direct and
mysterious. You can’t tell a poem what to do; after you make it has to keep on
moving, living, breathing, weeping on the page. Poems love the mundane world as
much as they love beauty, horror, injustice, history, swans. Poems want to do
everything and nothing at the same time.
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