Writing Problems: Anxiety of Allusion

Hardy, Parker, Coleman, "Ken Burns"

Thomas Hardy said good poetry “exacts a full look at the worst.” Looking fully, through the deity of language, is part of the poet’s responsibility. But it doesn’t have to be done alone and that responsibility doesn’t have to be borne alone.

There is a world that can make metaphors, can brings poems together with streams of knowledge, can connect form t…