[New-Poetry] What is Poetry?

[Jeff Newberry]

" . . . one of poetry's chief aims is to illumine the walls of mystery, the
inscrutable, the unsayable.  I think poetry ought to be taught not as an
engine of meaning but as an opportunity to learn to live in doubt and
uncertainty, as a means of claiming indeterminacy.  Our species is deeply
defined by its great surges of reason, but I think it high time we return to
elemental awe and wonder."

--Major Jackson, "Does Poetry Have a Social Function," Poetry, January 2007


Jeff Newberry

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