What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t?
Aside from being such a diversified and shape-shifting form of expression, poetry is also the perfect medium for approaching soul. Soul is something real but undefinable, infinitely unique but also universal, mysterious, elusive, and somehow ever-present. But it isn’t something we can approach head on, or it will scurry back to the shadows like a possum in the night. If we want to touch the soft skin of soul we have to court it; we have to seduce it – sometimes with just the silhouette of something, rather than the thing itself fully illuminated and available. Soul is mysterious and seeks mystery. And poetry, at its best, provides. Poetry allows us to approach soul sideways and meet it in on its own terms, in the realm of mystery and the subconscious. If we want soul to take a seat at the table, we have to make that beauty and mystery available for it to feast on. Poetry is both the feast that calls it forth, and the beasts themselves who come to eat.
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