from off-stage, promptings, triggers, intimations of something near and distant and--since poetry is an art of analogy, and thus an art of integration--finally connected to you, right to your skin. Jorie Graham lists the desired chain of links, the platonic ideal of oneness, and the necessary shortfall, when she writes, in "The Age of Reason": "For what we want/to take/inside of us, whole orchard,/color,/name, scent, symbol, raw/pale//blossoms, wet black/arms there is/no deep enough." A poem is an attempt to experience. It's a form of compensation for having just the one life.from The Guardian: Words of mouth: Nick Laird on the physicality of language
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