Someone is writing a poem. Words are being set down in a force field. It's as if the words themselves have magnetic charges; they veer together or in polarity, they swerve against each other. Part of the force field, the charge, is the working history of the words themselves, how someone has known them, used them, doubted and relied on them in a life.
What does a poet need to know?
-That to track your own desire, in your own language, is not an isolated task. You yourself are marked by family, gender, caste, landscape, the struggle to make a living, or the absence of such a struggle. The rich and the poor are equally marked. Poetry is never free of these marking even when it appears to be. Look into the images.
What does a poet need to know?
-That to track your own desire, in your own language, is not an isolated task. You yourself are marked by family, gender, caste, landscape, the struggle to make a living, or the absence of such a struggle. The rich and the poor are equally marked. Poetry is never free of these marking even when it appears to be. Look into the images.
I watch the children play at my work during recess. I watch them run and chase and play on the jungle gym. They often make trips to the drinking fountain and I think about what it is that they've lost and what they're replacing it with.
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