Thursday, June 11, 2020

WORDS OF WISDOM

Look at Allen Ginsberg. In poems like 'Kaddish' and 'Howl,' you can hear a cantor between the lines.  It's fully alive, and I think that's what's missing in modern poetry. It's too dry and cerebral.


~Derek Walcott, Poet (1930-2017)
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