This is an essay on my poem "Ballad," Keats's notion of Negative Capability, and Lorca's Duende, with a prompt and a link to the original poem. I'm happy to share it with you.
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Di. I have tried to connect with you a few times. B eth King from kzoo circa 1980. If you don't want to, that's ok. Have been following your poetry, etc. Hope you're well. I'm in the UP for now.
This is the book my mother brought home when she went to college after my dad died. I was 7, and the look of the book, the cover, never left me. It's a big part of my version of Modern Poetry. 💙
I have a couple of books like that, that I keep close because they are so much attached to my inner life. I still pluck them out to relive moments of my life.
To so invitingly split open & offer this insight into your work (which makes me cry every single time, yes every single poem even the not-sad) in an essay which *also* made me cry. Gifts & gifts, & our gratitude.
“The poet has a capacity to efface themselves, for a time; to become receptive rather than to impose, to diminish the ego in order to become open to everything outside the self.”
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