Warrior Poet’s Half Dozen Eco Poems
In the new anthology “Singing School, Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry” Robert Pinsky tells us poets to go back to the masters to learn. It makes sense. You learn film by studying the masters of film, sculpture by studying the masters of sculpture, the culinary arts by studying their masters, and music by studying masters of music. You learn what the forms are 
without becoming just an imitator of your contemporaries, which is highly possible if you study them and them alone.
Pinsky warns of the dangers of falling into group-think, of mimicking a voice or style or sensibility because you see it has rewards and you want those same rewards too. Of course the rewards of poetry and particularly eco-poetry have, so far at least, not been great.
Poet activism isn’t exactly a new thing, but in respect to defending nature it almost certainly is. Even poems written long ago that certainly belong in any eco-poetry canon are in the nature of one-offs: outliers in the warrior poetry universe.
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Here are your latest poems:
“When i wrapped my arms halfway ’round a doomed grandmother pine at dawn – and, crying, i prayed for her deliverance.”
“Something about a fawn gives a doe a special supply of fearlessness”
“I cannot see the way in this bamboo wood, but the birds sing and there is the chirp and bellow of frogs–”
“i watch you, as the sky, the empty air, no breath. no life. but you. what are you?”
“In the wind-like whistling song of the starling perched. In the golden yellow flashing light of fireflies. In the vast panoramic corridors of consciousness.”
“I think this is the prettiest world — so long as you don’t mind a little dying, how could there be a day in your whole life that doesn’t have its splash of happiness?”
Date: February 16, 2015
Categories: Inspiring Voices
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