When you require renewal, is there a particular poem or book that you return to? A particular author?
Rae Armantrout, John Ashbery, René Char and Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī all give me a good brain rub when I need it.
I find myself returning to Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29, in unfruitful times to hear the sound of “With what I most enjoy contented least” ring in my head or Char’s great poem “‘Restore to Them…’” to hear the resounding lines: “And for the one who can see the earth’s fruitful end, / Failure is of no moment, even if all is lost.”
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