The medium of poetry isn’t language, really; it’s human loneliness, a loneliness that poets, having received it themselves from earlier poets, transfer to their readers. Like bees in a honeycomb, writers and readers experience isolation and solitude communally and collaboratively. This is what Harold Bloom speaks of when […] he says that poets create an ‘otherness’ such that loneliness is ‘created and alleviated at once.’ Writing a poem, you create that vivid otherness; reading one, you re-create it in your own person. These two lonely souls, writer and reader, are bound to one another. (Dan Chiasson)
Posted on: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 11:13:25 +0000
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