Sublime

Yet in lining up the external poetic chips into publishable “articulateness” rather than “indwelling,” you face the danger of writing what poet Derek Walcott terms “a fake poem.” Still, many yearn for the status that public recognition brings, even as they recognize the possible falsity involved.

In short, trickster is a boundary-crosser. Every group has its edge, its sense of in and out, and trickster is always there, at the gates of the city and the gates of life, making sure there is commerce. He also attends the internal boundaries by which groups articulate their social life. We constantly distinguish—right and wrong, sacred and profan

Can you find where this moment comes from or where it goes home to?

“Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.”

The poet needs the practicalities of making a living to test and temper the lyricism of insight and observation. The corporation needs the poet’s insight and powers of attention to weave the inner world of soul and creativity with the outer world of form and matter.

And sometimes, wondrously, you might find that an old

And a sensation came over me, a sort of lovely fear, that made me think of Boughton's fear of angels. Now, I may have been more than half asleep at that point, but a thought arose that abides with me. I wished I could sit at the feet of that eternal soul and learn. He did then seem to me the angel of himself, brooding over the mysteries his mortal

The Scottish writer James Kelman described the eloquence of unlettered people with a gift for language as ‘orature’, the capacity to compel and