Tuesday, March 17, 2009

News at Eleven: The poet's task is both to dramatize

our most intimate and intense feelings, and at the same time give us a perspective on them. Stonington's great poet James Merrill once compared the process to sitting in your Honda while it goes through the car wash. Calmly inside, you watch a virtual storm of lashing torrents and winds. That's it exactly! [--J.D. McClatchy]

from The Day: Five Questions With J.D. McClatchy

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