A Daily Glance
By this I mean that Hawley's book seems to talk about poetry and how it doesn't fit into a society obsessed by other things but about how it needs to. The collection is full of some interesting individual contemporary sonnets. In fact, I came across the book while researching for a paper I presented on the sonnet, and one of the pieces, "no poem works," than I discovered then on a cursory reading is still my favorite after going through the whole book. In it, the speaker states:
It's this aspect of loitering that makes new time that is interesting. Poetry does not build necessary artifacts but it does create. The book on a whole asks you to "forget reading," but this forgetting seems to be a way to remember.
Anthony Hawley's Forget Reading is a book that could be summed up by the lines from Williams:
It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.
By this I mean that Hawley's book seems to talk about poetry and how it doesn't fit into a society obsessed by other things but about how it needs to. The collection is full of some interesting individual contemporary sonnets. In fact, I came across the book while researching for a paper I presented on the sonnet, and one of the pieces, "no poem works," than I discovered then on a cursory reading is still my favorite after going through the whole book. In it, the speaker states:
even with shovel with drill
poem cannot build so useful
a drawer
poem is no tomb
but loiters and makes new time
It's this aspect of loitering that makes new time that is interesting. Poetry does not build necessary artifacts but it does create. The book on a whole asks you to "forget reading," but this forgetting seems to be a way to remember.
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