Poetry
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You're familiar with his
poetry.
The big image is our story, our poetry, our romanticism.
Our
poetry
is our mutation, our life.
That is our
poetry.
And the beauty of this, in perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a new story, a new poetry, a new romanticism.
Invent a new
poetry.
They've been celebrated in art and in
poetry
for centuries.
But, maybe like poetry, make you aware that you already had this image with you, but only now I've unearthed it and made you realize that you were carrying it with you all along.
But like poetry, this is a very delicate process that is neither efficient nor scalable, I think.
I read
poetry
all the time and write about it frequently and take poems apart to see how they work because I'm a word person.
And I became a
poetry
critic because I wanted to know how and why.
Now,
poetry
isn't one thing that serves one purpose any more than music or computer programming serve one purpose.
The greek word poem, it just means "a made thing," and
poetry
is a set of techniques, ways of making patterns that put emotions into words.
That said,
poetry
does seem to be especially good at certain things.
Poetry
can help us live with that.
The poet Frank O'Hara said, "If you don't need poetry, bully for you," but he also said when he didn't want to be alive anymore, the thought that he wouldn't write any more poems had stopped him.
Poetry
helps me want to be alive, and I want to show you why by showing you how, how a couple of poems react to the fact that we're alive in one place at one time in one culture, and in another we won't be alive at all.
The Scottish poet Denise Riley compares
poetry
to a needle, a sliver of outside I cradle inside, and the American poet Terrance Hayes wrote six poems called "Wind in a Box."
Now, I am free of the collar, free of the yellow raincoat, monogrammed sweater, the absurdity of your lawn, and that is all you need to know about this place, except what you already supposed and are glad it did not happen sooner, that everyone here can read and write, the dogs in poetry, the cats and all the others in prose."
In the classroom, I challenge my students to explore the silences in their own lives through
poetry.
Let's take it this way: when you're busy solving mathematical equations, and you are memorizing poetry, you forget the violence that you witnessed back home.
We became his mouthpiece, spending hours each day reciting the alphabet as he whispered back sermons and
poetry
with blinks of his eye.
Well, computers can't really think, they don't emote, they don't understand poetry, we don't really understand how they work.
Right then I decided that I wanted
poetry
to enter the prison.
So I said to them why don't we work with poetry, if they knew what
poetry
was.
But nobody had a clue what
poetry
really was.
We could have
poetry.
And so, like I’m doing now, I gave them a moment of silence, then said, “That's what
poetry
is, you guys.
Poetry
does that; it sews up the wounds of exclusion.
Poetry
works as a mirror.
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