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I dunno. It’s one of those volumes of poetry that makes me wonder if I know anything at all about poetry.
His first poem “How I Became an Apostle” is after Edward Hirsch. I read Hirsch’s poem “I’m Going to Start Living like a Mystic” to see if it shed light on what Kwame is trying to say. Hirsch’s metaphor is cinematic and profound. I don’t get what Kwame is trying to say.
— May 10, 2021 04:27AM
His first poem “How I Became an Apostle” is after Edward Hirsch. I read Hirsch’s poem “I’m Going to Start Living like a Mystic” to see if it shed light on what Kwame is trying to say. Hirsch’s metaphor is cinematic and profound. I don’t get what Kwame is trying to say.
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Sometimes I see a man mumbling to himself, through a window. I am outside, in the snow and the man inside mumbling knows it is winter, which is what he muses over, and I stand watching him, listening to the sound and sometime cadence of the words. I catch just a gist of what he is saying, something about winter, and it is not his meaning but his performance that keeps me there, watching.
— May 31, 2021 01:13AM
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I am liking these poems more the further into the collection I go.
"...I am trying for calm,/but the fears come in the silent//time, the knocks and groans/ of a house still seething //into the ground, startles me;..."
I like a house seething into the ground, and the vulnerability of the man it frightens.
— May 12, 2021 03:27AM
"...I am trying for calm,/but the fears come in the silent//time, the knocks and groans/ of a house still seething //into the ground, startles me;..."
I like a house seething into the ground, and the vulnerability of the man it frightens.
