“What we know for sure is that metaphor is the raw uranium of poetry, and that an urge to say that one thing is like something else is one of the earliest markers of the poetic spirit, the nascent poet.” KnowsSpiritOne ThingPoetMetaphorUrgesPoeticLike SomethingMarkersUranium Author:Tony Hoagland
“The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor.” PoetryLiteratureContemporaryPoeticRepresentationDisorientationMimesis Author:Tony Hoagland
“So much of what I love about poetry lies in the vast possibilities of voice, the spectacular range of idiosyncratic flavors that can be embedded in a particular human voice reporting from the field. One beautiful axis of voice is the one that runs between vulnerability and detachment, between 'It hurts to be alive' and 'I can see a million miles from here.' A good poetic voice can do both at once.” HumansI CanRunningBeautifulLyingVoiceCan DoHurtMillionsAliveFieldsPossibilityParticularMilesRangeVulnerabilityPoeticIt HurtsFlavorSpectacularDetachmentEmbeddedAxesHuman Voice Author:Tony Hoagland
