Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Great Regulars: It is not the barometer

that changes the weather."

That's one of the problems addressed in "I Would Like to Describe." Can a poet measure meaning? Can that measurement influence thought? And if a poet can measure meaning, can a poet describe even the "simplest emotion" from the intimate to the political in the service of understanding humanity?

[by Zbigniew Herbert]

I Would Like to Describe

from David Biespiel: The Oregonian: Poetry: 'I Would Like to Describe' by Zbigniew Herbert

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