Poetry is not the curation of the poet’s self nor a mode of self-transcendence. Poetry is the discovery of the self in otherness. Writing poems is a dodgy business. W.S.Graham:
Dammit these words are making faces
At me again. I hope the faces
They make at you have more love.
from “Implements in Their Places.”
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Tom D'Evelyn is a private editor and writing tutor in Cranston RI and, thanks to the web, across the US and in the UK. He can be reached at tom.develyn@comcast.net. D'Evelyn has a PhD in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley. Before retiring he held positions at The Christian Science Monitor, Harvard University Press, Boston University and Brown University. He ran a literary agency for ten years, publishing books by Leonard Nathan and Arthur Quinn, among others. Before moving to Portland OR he was managing editor at Single Island Press, Portsmouth NH. He blogs at http://tdevelyn.com and other sites.
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