What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t?
Poetry provides a reflective and reflexive awareness of a state of consciousness; preservation of persons (cf. Allen Grossman, The Sighted Singer); Think of it this way, as a kind of generalization: We’re not good at relating conceptual-level apprehensions. We need poets to expand our vocabulary-driven and -limited thoughts. In this way, poets are the geographic explorers of the realms of human experience. We need poets to go there and report on it: the coasts, the forests, the other beings and states of being. I’m not a googly ghost-whisperer at all; I’m a very science-based person enthralled with things like space telescopes and subatomic particles. But people experience the world largely through their narratives and their vocabularies, so that’s where poetry is a vanguard.
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