Sunday 5 June 2022

Jennifer Hasegawa : part five

What do you feel poetry can accomplish that other forms can’t?

Poetry requires a lot from its readers. For example, for me, at its best, poetry doesn’t provide answers; it asks questions. The reader must mine the poem for meaning and the meaning resides in the reader. Other forms might provide facts or build out fantastic worlds, but I think poetry questions the facts and asks readers to build their own worlds out of the atoms in a poem. That’s hard work, but that’s also why poetry can start revolutions.

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