Writing Problems: Emergent strategy

Paz, brown, Lorde, Zagajewski, Dickinson

One of the most difficult balancing acts in making poems is living in the space between what Octavio Paz called “solitude and communion.” Poems are made in solitude, a going into the depths, but they are meant to find readers, and to find a communion (if not a community) of people to find a way into the poems.

The tension between these seemingly opposit…