Sam Moore
Read if you like: Poetry; verses; drinking the haterade; Claudia Rankine; the fact man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what else is a heaven for; trying, failing, failing again, failing better
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Been thinking about the idea of failure a lot lately and what comes after it so this ended up being very much up my alley for my current obsession; the idea that the point of poetry is to fail -- perfect poems exist in dreams and divinity but we'll never write them down. Love Lerner's willingness to be combative and surprising, even when he talks to himself. All for anything that challenges narratives of the "universal" through what we might diplomatically call a Very Specific Lens; Lerner goes to bat for things and poets that really pleasantly surprised me. This is a great, lean piece of criticism
Read if you like: Poetry; verses; drinking the haterade; Claudia Rankine; the fact man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what else is a heaven for; trying, failing, failing again, failing better
***
Been thinking about the idea of failure a lot lately and what comes after it so this ended up being very much up my alley for my current obsession; the idea that the point of poetry is to fail -- perfect poems exist in dreams and divinity but we'll never write them down. Love Lerner's willingness to be combative and surprising, even when he talks to himself. All for anything that challenges narratives of the "universal" through what we might diplomatically call a Very Specific Lens; Lerner goes to bat for things and poets that really pleasantly surprised me. This is a great, lean piece of criticism