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The nation needs that poem, all of them.
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I love loaning Chitwood books to my poetry- writing students, especially the ones who need to learn that poems are not about being over- clever or pseudo- artfully vague or willfully difficult: he shows them the power of clear diction and sense- rich imagery and familiar subject matter seen in a fresh way.
All you need to understand is that poems and rhymes normally have rhythm.
And we need a poem that's honest in addressing war's roots – William Blake's A Poison Tree.
We need this poem again, and more poems like it, which ache to understand others' suffering, which suffer over a suddenly dashed dream of what could and should have been, what should be.
Or I can see that a structure I worked long and hard on in one failed poem turned out to be the structure I would need for a poem that came years later.
The order from the Dear Leader, referred to here as "the General", was that North Korea needed "an epic poem to be used in conducting of psychological warfare" and that Jang had been assigned the job.
Carlos Hortas, a performance poet who, with musicians, participated two years ago, recalled that he needed to time poems between stops and that he had to shout to be heard over street noise.
That amazing thing doesn't need my poem, but my poem still needs it, the way every poem still needs all the world.
But there's something else that needs to be purged, and the poem recognizes that even more profoundly.
I mean, I think I need a poem.
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