2002 in Literature - Poetry

Poetry

  • Jim Dodge - Rain on the River
  • Linton Kwesi Johnson - Mi Revalueshanary Fren
  • Grazyna Miller - Alibi of a butterfly

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Famous quotes containing the word poetry:

    Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing
    with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring
    with replacing the noun. It is doing that always
    doing that, doing that and doing nothing but that.
    Poetry is doing nothing but using losing refusing and
    pleasing and betraying and caressing nouns. That is
    what poetry does, that is what poetry has to do no
    matter what kind of poetry it is. And there are a
    great many kinds of poetry.
    Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    Prose—it might be speculated—is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared language, the voice of “communication”; the other is private, allusive, teasing, sly, idiosyncratic as the spider’s delicate web, a kind of witchcraft unfathomable to ordinary minds.
    Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)

    Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)