get angry that the real feeling of a day that changed everything forever is boiled down so incessantly, and so often, to cliché.Nikki Moustaki's poem, 'How to Write a Poem after September 11th', which appears in the Poetry After 9/11 anthology, elevates itself from sentimental rhetoric by being a sharp, irritated telling off to all the bad clichés that attempt to communicate feeling. Moustaki writes through gritted teeth, without metaphorical flourish, angry at the uselessness of poetry, but more angry that all she can do as a poet, to make sense, is write.
from Granta: Undoing the folded lie: Poetry after 9/11
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