Be Brave, Write Clearly
There’s a lot of space within the word “clarity.” I’m thinking about how poets work for or work against clarity as they write. There’s a certain kind of clarity that seems imperative to me. Here’s something from an article by Matthew Zapruder in The Poet. He’s writing in praise of W.S.Merwin’s The Vixen: “without clarity, it is not possible to have true mystery. By clarity, I mean a sense in the reader that what is being said on the surface of the poem is not a scrim or a veil deliberately hiding some other hidden inaccessible certainty. Clarity for me in poetry is a...
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