We must admit there will be music despite everything.*
-Jack Gilbert, "A Brief for the Defense"
*"Poetry, for me," he declares in a 1965 essay, "is a witnessing to magnitude." In poems he sings of a "magnitude of pain, of being that much alive," and "a magnitude of beauty that allows me no peace." +
Yes. And yes.
[R.I.P., Jack. 11.11.12]
*"Poetry, for me," he declares in a 1965 essay, "is a witnessing to magnitude." In poems he sings of a "magnitude of pain, of being that much alive," and "a magnitude of beauty that allows me no peace." +
Yes. And yes.
[R.I.P., Jack. 11.11.12]
Image: Etienne Martin, Le Manteau, 1962
