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e333mily's review
5.0
“Trauma, either on an intimate or a collective scale, has the power to annihilate the self and shred the web of meanings that supports its existence. And yet, the evidence of lyric poetry is equally clear—deep in the recesses of the human spirit, there is some instinct to rebuild the web of meanings with the same quiet determination we witness in the garden spider as it repairs the threads winds and weather have torn.”
“We must, the personal lyric tells us, become vulnerable to what is out there (or inside us). Not in order to be destroyed or overwhelmed by it, but as part of a strategy for dealing with it and surviving it. Lyric poetry tells us it is precisely by letting in disorder that we will gain access to poetry’s ability to help us survive.”
“We must, the personal lyric tells us, become vulnerable to what is out there (or inside us). Not in order to be destroyed or overwhelmed by it, but as part of a strategy for dealing with it and surviving it. Lyric poetry tells us it is precisely by letting in disorder that we will gain access to poetry’s ability to help us survive.”
vivdavis's review against another edition
5.0
I think you have to read this as a self-help book rather than an academic study. (Dickinson’s trauma is her subjectivity? What lol.) Still I would 100% smoke peyote with Greg Orr.
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