This tongue-in-cheek essay might steer a few readers of poems—whether experienced or new—toward a deeper appreciation of both the importance and the pleasure of a good poem—by comparing it to a physical object we all know well.
“The best poems are like lightning flashes that, for a split second, light up our ignorance. These flashes can also light the way to ideas that come uncomfortably close to being solutions to our most entrenched and cherished crises.”
“Poems have wide margins. The reader needs only marginal intelligence.”
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