Category: poetry unpacked
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Poetry Unpacked: On Addiction
COLLAPSING GEOMETRIES (Click link for poem) “Sleepmonger, deathmonger, with capsules in my palms each night, eight at a time from sweet pharmaceutical bottles.” — Anne Sexton, “The Addict” Poetry Unpacked: On Addiction Anne Sexton’s phrasing – Sleepmonger – Deathmonger: there is no romance here. There is no metaphor trying to rescue the experience of addiction from…
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On Stars and People and People as Stars
GRAVITAS OF GREATNESS (click for poem link) “The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of star stuff.” ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos Poetry Unpacked: On Stars and People and People as Stars…
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Poetry Unpacked: On Hope
RED PLANET, RED FLAG (Click for poem) “If I had lost my belief in you, I should have lost all hope.” –George Elliot, Middlemarch Poetry Unpacked: On Hope George Eliot’s line sounds romantic, right? Belief, in this framing, is not separate from hope. It is hope. To lose belief in a person is not to…
