Trying to revise a poem this morning, and the ending is a mess. When this happens, I sometimes try out the four different endings types offered by Stanley Kunitz (as passed along by Marie Howe, so there's a definite possibility of some telephone game errors on my part). 1/5
Got a sonnet in @redqueenlitmag in May. I had been rejected from them before so to get this one in was even sweeter. The title is yes, a *NSYNC reference. Scroll down to page 25. https://t.co/SgOEwXMt06
‘Poetry survives because it haunts and it haunts, it is simultaneously clear and utterly mysterious, because it cannot be entirely accounted for, it cannot be exhausted’ - Louise Gluck
Yanyi. “Walking reverse with such / confidence until you reach another room. There stands / this person who is also a talisman. In the dream, / it doesn’t matter when they loved you.”