Craft: Digging into the pit of the self

Kunitz, Brock-Broido, Roethke, Bronk, Kafka

Poetry is about metaphor: the act of bringing unrelated things together. It’s about noticing where these connections occur, and recognizing what they signal. Since all the words in the dictionary are themselves metaphors for other words or ideas, we might conclude that everywhere around us, things are breathing, thumping, and beaming their signals to us…