Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual … - Marilyn Hacker

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Marilyn Hacker

Poetry seems to have been eliminated as a literary genre, and installed instead, as a kind of spiritual aerobic exercise - nobody need read it, but anybody can do it.

Exercise, Installed, Literary Genre, Poetry, Spiritual

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Did you love well what very soon you left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache. Never so full, I never was bereft so utterly. The winter evenings drift dark to the window. Not one work will make you, where you are, turn in your day, or wake from your night toward me. The only gift I got to keep or give is what I've cried, floodgates let down to mourning for the dead chances, for the end of being young, for everyone I loved who really died. I drank our one year out in brine instead of honey from the seasons of your tongue.

Arms, Broken Heart, Dark, Headache, Home, Mourning

There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.

Acquiring, Example, Language, Vocabulary, Writing

There is something very satisfactory about being in the middle of something.

Middle, Satisfactory

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.

Healing, Hope, Poetry, Sit, Way, Writing

With, or despite our scars, we stay alive.

Alive, Scar, Scars, Stay, Staying Alive

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