“I, after so much isolation, so much indifference, kept going even if going meant only waiting, hovering in place. So far below, so far away from the rest of life....” PoetryPoemSolitudeIndifferenceIsolation Book:All the Flowers Kneeling Source: All the Flowers Kneeling
“Now I know what appears as the motion of Heaven is just the motion of Earth. Not stars. Not whatever I want.” FactsTruthPoetryBeliefStarsPoemCopernicus Author:Paul Tran
“Who doesn’t know how doubt lifts the hem of its nightgown to reveal another inch of thigh before the face of faith?” PoetryFaithDoubtPoem Author:Paul Tran
“...an actualized poem requires the actualization, or radical transformation, of the poet - that a poem is the discovery and enactment of an emotional and psychological investigation into the vexed interiority of a speaker, that the interior is indeed political - and that every poem, every time, in some miraculous way, must be an argument about the making of poetry itself.” PoetryTransformationRadicalInvestigationVexationActualizationArs PoeticaInteriority Book:All the Flowers Kneeling Source: All the Flowers Kneeling