Eric Linder’s Reviews > Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World > Status Update

“I used to think that poetry - and religion, too - was about describing the transcendent; the things you couldn’t put your hands on. But these days, I find myself more and more interested in language that pays attention to tangible things. Poems that try to be about everything often end up being about nothing, but poems that pay attention to one thing can have much more to say.”