12.21.2011

Vocation of Poetry


The Vocation of Poetry
by Durs Grünbein
ISBN-10: 0979582997

Upper West Side Philosophers, Inc.

Author: Durs Grünbein
What counts is the one, unattended second, the moment of inspiration that can never be forced and that decides all. It gives the beginning, it sets in motion the production of sense. The poem is the literary form that most purely captures this moment of inception. I might even go so far as to say that poetry is in large part born from the desire to start over as often as possible...

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