“This is a prayer, inchoate and unfinished, for you, my love, my loss, my lesion, a rosary of words to count out time's illusions, all the minutes, hours, days the calendar compounds as if the past existed somewhere like an inheritance still waiting to be claimed.” IfsStillsPastWaitingHoursPrayerLossMinutesIllusionInheritanceCompoundsCalendarsUnfinishedRosary Book:99 Poems: New & Selected Source: 99 Poems: New & Selected
“In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the purpose of literature is truly, as the ancients insisted, to instruct and delight, then what better to understand and enjoy than the here and the now?” IfsAgeLife IsPurposeLiteratureEnjoyVoiceReaderDelightStandardization Author:Dana Gioia
“Even if great poetry continues to be written, it has retreated from the center of literary life. Though supported by a loyal coterie, poetry has lost the confidence that it speaks to and for the general culture.” IfsCultureLostSpeakWrittenLoyalGreat PoetGreat Poetry Book:Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture Source: Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture
