Tuesday, December 21, 2010

News at Eleven: Specificity and placeness play

major roles in Heart Turned Back. The poet as naturalist turns her observations into meditations. Her surroundings have not washed over her. She wears them like beads of water, pollen. In some ways she does what bees do, she pollinates things and so becomes part of a propagating cycle. It could be said this is what poets do. Having said it, I would want it understood it "s Bertha Rogers's poems that prompt me.

from The Student Operated Press: Bertha Rogers's Poems Have a Viking Energy and Great Emotional Intelligence

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