“In pursuing certain virtues - colorful local effects, personae and personality, juxtaposition, close calls with nonsense, uncertainty, critiques of ordinary language - the current crop of American poets necessarily give up on others.” GivingPoetryCertainLiteratureLanguageVirtueEffectsPoetPersonalityGiving UpOrdinaryCurrentsLocalsUncertaintyNonsenseCropsCritiqueColorfulJuxtapositionClose Calls Book:Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry Source: Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry
“I tend to integrate poet and scholar is by ironizing the scholarship. My hope is to disturb that space between the two so they can coexist in a kind of mutual uncertainty.” KindTwoSpacePoetUncertaintyMutualScholarScholarshipIntegratingSpace BetweenCoexist Author:Gregory Pardlo
“We poets don't tend to be certain a lot. Much of our art is made out of our own uncertainty. And there is a not-knowingness, I think, that leads us back to suffering humanity with a more compassionate vision than most of our politicians have.” ThinkingArtMadeCertainSufferingHumanityVisionPoetPoliticianArt IsUncertaintyCompassionate Author:Sam Hamill
“I believe strongly in what John Keats called negative capability: the trait or practice that allows a poet to remain in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason. For Keats, William Shakespeare exemplified negative capability, and I do think it's extraordinary that for all the thousands of pages Shakespeare left behind, we really don't know much about Shakespeare's own personality or opinions.” ThinkingBelieveReasonI BelieveOpinionDoubtMysteryPoetPersonalityNegativeExtraordinaryUncertaintyCapabilityTraitsLeft Behind Author:James Arthur