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Simecek, Karen (2021) Of many voices : a poetic gift of togetherness (with a poem by Momtaza Mehri). The Poetry Review, 111 (3). ISSN 0032-2156.
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Abstract
“I am so afraid of the words of men. / They pronounce everything so distinctly”, Rilke wrote in an early poem (‘Ich fürchte mich so vor der Menschen Wort’, translator unknown). […] Rilke was attracted to the Namenlos, nameless, a word that recurs in his work – he preferred the hole to the rabbits. His feeling about the nameless seems to stand in contrast to Audre Lorde’s famous remark in ‘Poetry Is Not a Luxury’ that “Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought”. Yet she did write “help give name”, as though to imply that naming is a force unto itself, and poets only midwives. However we feel about naming, we keep on doing it. “is it innate”, Karen McCarthy Woolf writes in her sequence un/safe, “the urge / to fill that which / appears / to be / empty ?”.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PR English literature | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Poetry, Mehri, Momtaza , Poetry, Modern -- History and criticism, African poetry (English), Poetry -- Women authors, Immigrants -- Poetry | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | The Poetry Review | ||||||
Publisher: | The Poetry Society | ||||||
ISSN: | 0032-2156 | ||||||
Official Date: | September 2021 | ||||||
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Volume: | 111 | ||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 1 September 2021 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 March 2023 | ||||||
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