[New-Poetry] What is Poetry?

[Bob Grumman]

  " . . . 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

  As if anyone could live in doubt and uncertainty.  Not that utter certainty, if possible, wouldn't be worse.

  --Bob Grumman
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