Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Great Regulars: "Still," she writes

in the beautiful last stanza, "why do I feel so responsible/for the wailing from shattered houses,/for birth defects and unjust wars,/and the soft, unbearable sadness/filtering down from distant stars?"

Some of the poems meditate on the responsibilities of the poet.

from Jay Parini: The Guardian: Open and shut case

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