Oh, dear. I think I’m not a fan of modern poetry. I got Then the War from the library—the 2023 Pulitzer Prize-winning book of poetry by Carl Phillips, and immediately I recognize the condensed weight of the portentous, pressing—
pressing on the necessary but fragile
breath…
Oh, the judicious use of the
line break.
And, repetition.
An actual line:
“The gray of doves. The gray of doves, in shadow.”
Yes. Very nice. The dying tree poem (post below) fulfilled my quota.
Instead I shall read, also from the library, Do zombies dream of undead sheep? A Neuroscientific view of the zombie brain, Princeton University Press, 2014. Serious science applied to a fictional being, “combining tongue-in-cheek analysis with modern neuroscientific principles”.
i read allen ginsberg's last book of the poetry which was tough to read. i wonder if some of the newer poetry seems foreign to us olders as we were raised on a more rhythmic type pf poetry. and also if modern poetry has been written in line with texting.
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Ooo! The zombie book sounds good…let me know…I might need it for my research.
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