Great Regulars: Yet even while a poet has no control

over what a reader privately thinks when reading his or her poems, there is certainly poetry's "singing light"--and that light provides a means for the emotions of our lives to exist in the living world. In his poem, "In My Craft or Sullen Art," Dylan Thomas makes a wonderful stand for this aspect of poetry's endurance--even as he owns up to the public's ambivalence, indifference and opposition to it.

In My Craft or Sullen Art

from David Biespiel: The Oregonian: Poetry

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