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...course, this is a single poem, and Gluck has always been a complex poet. Yet her new book of poems, Vita Nova, presents a self-revision which suggests Gluck believes she has grown out of something. Vita Nova depicts reconciliation with personality sins: fear, dream, lying, fragmentation and women who do not regret their sexual falls but instead say to their lover, "Even before I was touched, I belonged to you;/you had only to look...
Furthermore, Gluck is quick to switch narratorial perspectives, writing call and answer poems in which she is only sometimes the subject. Her opening poem, "Vita Nova," begins, "You saved me, you should remember me." A plot and an addressee are suddenly implied and then dropped, and the poems that follow are similarly oblique...
...read Mr. Zbigniew Herbert. He is a serious poet, full of beauty that does not insult our modern post-atrocity sensibilities. A Polish poet born in 1950 who was active in his country's anti-Communist movement, Herbert died in 1998, leaving behind an oeuvre that begins with spare poems about creation, antiquity and art. He then continues those themes through increasingly pointed and readable poetry while also developing a strong form of the prose poem that mixes fairy tales, images from everyday life and an aphoristic style. The recently published posthumous collection Elegy for the Departure and Other Poems...
...fall asleep on words," an earlier poem of Herbert's, hints at the character of his poetry. Herbert begins with "We fall asleep on words / we wake among words," outlining the windows of perception so densely implicit in Herbert's image-heavy poems. Herbert goes on to describe lost words as being "a small prickly pin / that connected / the most beautiful / lost metaphor in the world." His persistence in revamping sentence and idea structure in order to illustrate experience despite the fragility of language is thus made explicit. His method, however, is not so straightforward, relying on intuition and dream...
Ikpe explained the event's name by reading the Paul Lawrence Dunbar poem "We Wear the Mask," saying black men often feel they must put on a "facade" and pretend to not care about societal misperceptions of black...