Writing Problems: War in Ukraine

Sartre, Merwin, Rukeyser, Hayden, Miłosz

Poetry is a task that demands transformation, and transformation can only happen with acceptance of death and hatred of death. I say hatred of death because poetry synthesizes thought and language into an object, the poem, and this process is an affirmation of consciousness. Poems push death away, try to understand it, make death transparent so we can l…