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Commented Jun 11, 2011 on "Falling Out of Bed in a Room with No Floor" by Terence Winch [by David Lehman] at The Best American Poetry
"Falling Out of Bed in a Room with No Floor" by Terence Winch [by David Lehman]
Terence Winch's new book, Falling Out of Bed in a Room with No Floor (Hanging Loose Press), his best to date, expresses the poet's defiant resistance to the forces of intellectual conformism -- it asserts the prerogatives of the autonomous self against all that would militate against it. Like a ...
A wonderful post. As both an African-American and a gay male, Brown has plenty of reason to have had his soul invaded by hatred and allowed more of that emotion to incubate therein. But instead, he chooses to confront the anger he has caused in others. And from this the poem springs: not only is the world not our own and much more, not ourselves, and hard it is in spite of blazoned days, but to muddle together two poets who probably wouldn't have liked each other, as is my wont, poetry comes from internal arguments, not with those we have with others. I.e., it's the empathy, stupid.
Thank you Tracy, thank you Jericho.
Commented Jun 11, 2011 on On Community [by Tracy K. Smith] at The Best American Poetry
On Community [by Tracy K. Smith]
Today, I’m thinking about community. The people who constitute home for us. The ones who keep us from getting lost, losing track of where we are going or who we are in the process of becoming. The ones we watch sometimes in silence, proud and inspired by what their hands and heads and hearts...
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