When you require renewal, is there a particular poem or book that you return to? A particular author?
Brigit Pegeen Kelly, “Song,” one of the most amazing poems of the 20th century. Rainer Maria Rilke, everything, ever. Jane Kenyon, “Let Evening Come” - so spare, but so powerful. Kenneth Koch, “Fresh Air,’” for when I am frustrated with Big Poetry Industry. Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Pied Beauty” and its contemporary mirror, Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish” – another of the 20th century’s best poems, in my opinion.
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