"Green was the singing house"
Thomas, Patchen, Komunyakaa, Kaufman, Zagajewski
Dylan Thomas:
Kenneth Patchen:
Yusef Komunyakaa:
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Bob Kaufman:
Adam Zagajewski:
Actually our true life is more present in poetry (art) than in these hasty days. Poetry gives us back life as it really is, as it should be experienced, in its grandeur and in its misery. So perhaps we should be saying not that “poetry is exaggeration” but “life as we know it is diminished, a bit crippled,” regarded through the lens of litotes. Life is understatement; poetry doesn’t exaggerate.
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