I’m not sure I fully believe one form can rigidly do something that another absolutely cannot, but I will say that poetry is more likely to break language, soul, heart, staid conventions and patterns—to disassemble and reassemble thought and feeling in ways that we did or didn’t know we needed. It cracks the surface, the superficial, the unexamined, and it hands us back ourselves, more awakened and vibrant and aware.
Tuesday, 22 September 2020
Melissa Studdard : part three
What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t?
I’m not sure I fully believe one form can rigidly do something that another absolutely cannot, but I will say that poetry is more likely to break language, soul, heart, staid conventions and patterns—to disassemble and reassemble thought and feeling in ways that we did or didn’t know we needed. It cracks the surface, the superficial, the unexamined, and it hands us back ourselves, more awakened and vibrant and aware.
I’m not sure I fully believe one form can rigidly do something that another absolutely cannot, but I will say that poetry is more likely to break language, soul, heart, staid conventions and patterns—to disassemble and reassemble thought and feeling in ways that we did or didn’t know we needed. It cracks the surface, the superficial, the unexamined, and it hands us back ourselves, more awakened and vibrant and aware.
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