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January 27, 2025 1:18 PM Subscribe
The approach to materiality of such images holds us back from premature abstract cognition, imprisoning us, albeit briefly, in the realm of the senses. The inherent brilliance of lyric poetry is its ability, with its best practitioners, to restrain our collective mania for codifying and explaining what each poem is ‘really about.’ In some ways, it seems implausible that lyric ever became about what it’s supposedly “really about.” from The Buster’s Hand: Sunni Brown Wilkinson’s “Rodeo” [Merion West]
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