Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.
Diane GlancyThe word is important in Native American tradition. You speak the path on which you walk. Your words make the trail.
Diane GlancyWriting is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking. A concrete event, then an abstraction. An image, then a thought. Finally, writing builds another establishment with the fragments.
Diane GlancyPoetry saves what is human in this world going gaudy & insane. In exploring small truths, something larger might turn up, adding dimension, insight, vision, recognition to our lives. We just might be more complete, more aware after a poem.
Diane Glancy20th century poetry is a piรฑata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.
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