![]() To Put It Differently
Poetry chooses choice things, carefully selecting select words, arranging, fabulously, things arranged. To put it differently is hard, if not out of the question. Poetry's like a clay plate. It's broken easily under the weight of all those poems. In the hands of the poet, it sings. In those of others, not only doesn't it sing, it's out of the question. Translated by Translated from the Hebrew by Peter Cole
From Volume 192, Number 1, April 2008 Copyright © The Poetry Foundation |