Storehoused Wisdom: Poets on the Practice
In my last entry, I explored how poems take us deeper into our own stories. Poems ground us in what we know, but also what we want to know. In the book that helped me understand my own ethos about poetry, Jane Hirshfield’s Nine Gates, she writes: “The writer reaches by means of language into the outer world—the world of things, and also of words themsel…
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