A wonderful interview with Elizabeth Dodd! Feel free to share! As a very young poet, in high school, I read James Wright, Robert Bly, William Stafford—all poets for whom the natural world mattered in ways sometimes spiritual, sometimes political. Their work showed me the power of plain speech, the way a kind of intimacy can occur within the voice on the page. I remember reading “Tract” by William Stafford and realizing with a kind of elation that even though it seemed like a rather dated poem—at first it reminded me of Our Town, which I found tedious—his emphasis on simplicity in ritual could apply to much more than going to a funeral.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:30:27 +0000
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