Ae stallings nocturnal meaning12/12/2023 ![]() ![]() But this is a characteristic of writing that challenges, rather than caters. If you found yourself searching for the definition of a word or two, you’re not alone. How she construed from the imperfect past Not just a die miscast.It made him sad, it made him livid: Only contrary to fact.Tomorrow should have been vast, The butchered present in sutures.He cursed in the fricative, On the other hand, in a poem that appeared in The New Yorker, “Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda,” she is both amusing and substantial: There are by my count 41 “like’s” in the poem, and unless you’re eleven years old you are sure to find it annoying. Some forms also invite the writers to indulge in the hyper-clever, and this is also true of Stallings. The charge against writing in different verse forms in English is that the writer sometimes, for the sake of hewing to the rules, is forced to settle for awkward wording: “whose woods these are I think I know…” Stallings is sometimes guilty of that fault. She takes on a wide range of subjects, from toys to crows to Greek mythology (she has written translations and is a classics scholar). You may not appreciate everything she writes, but there is no doubt that you are reading serious verse, and that she is both inventive and adept. You may or may not love the paintings of Vermeer, but there is no denying that he is an artist who is both creative and skillful. Perhaps interest in this kind of verse will lead to some picking up some truly innovative poetry - the kind found in Like by A.E. ![]() It isn’t always exceptional, but it has value and meaning. Verse is suddenly gaining in popularity and this has led to the poetry that we find in the music lyrics of Kendrick Lamar, the verse of Claudia Rankine, and others. The upshot is that readers do not know what to make of poetry - avoiding it, even hating it.Īt the same time, partly because of our current political crises, there is the assumption that poetry is one way in which we can understand trying times. MFA programs abound that perpetuate the problem. The results? At times overly precious writing that ranges from attempts to integrate prose and poetry to poems that are indecipherable collections of fragments and non sequiturs. In poetry, this yen for novelty manifests itself in a call for cutting edge, hybrid, innovative work. In addition, to make things worse, Americans are obsessed with the new. It isn’t always poetry and it isn’t always art. $24.Ĭontemporary poetry has something in common with contemporary art. ![]() Stallings’ wit, wisdom, and word-smithing. Despite its occasional confusions, this is poetry I will return to - to re-experience A.E. ![]()
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